Tree (?). Youngest branches dark reddish brown or blackish brown when dry, older ones brownish to greyish brown, often fissured, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 0.8-2.2 cm long; blade broadly ovate-lanceolate to obovate, 3-7 by 1.5-4.5 cm, base obliquely truncate, apex obtuse or emarginate, often cuspidate, sometimes folded along midrib, nerves distinct only on lower side, (5-)6-7 on each side, glabrous or with a very few hairs on upper, tomentose in the axils of the primary nerves on the lower side. Inflorescence subapical or on lateral branches, corymbose-paniculoid, glabrous, often with flex-uous branches, loose, many-flowered; pedicels 0.5-5 mm (in fruit). Fruiting calyx up to 2.5 mm long, 4.5 mm in diam., lobes 2 mm long, triangular, ciliate along margins. Fruit globose or a little depressed, 4-5 mm in diam., keeled at margin of carpels, with the remnants of the style that is breaking at point of branching.
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