Tree or shrub, 2-15 m tall; branchlets terete, sparsely puberulent, glabrate. Petiole slender, 0.5-2 cm long, canaliculate above; blades coriaceous, ovate-orbicular to ovate-oblong or oblong, 8-15 x 3.5-8 cm, margins slightly revolute, apex acuminate, acumen 1-2 cm long, base rounded, slightly sericeous or pilose, especially on veins when young, glabrescent except on veins; primary vein sulcate above, prominent beneath, puberulous, secondary veins 5-8 on each side, slightly prominent beneath, arcuate ascending, ending free. Inflorescences 2-6 congested multiflorous panicles, 1-3 cm long; branches densely grayish sericeous. Calyx stellate-campanulate, 1-1.5 mm diam., ca. 1 mm high, lobes broadly-triangular, ca. 0.5 x 1 mm, densely short sericeous outside; petals white, linear, 2.5-4 x 1 mm, apex acute, finely short sericeous outside, long lanate on apical two third of midrib inside; stamens 3-4 mm long, filaments narrowed towards base and apex, ca. 2.5 mm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long, flattened, dorsifixed; ovary cylindrical-subglobose, ca. 1.5 mm long, with distinct basal sterile part, 3-celled, style to 2.5 mm long, strongly eccentric. Drupe depressed-globose, ribbed, asymmetric, 1.5 cm diam.
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