Shrub, to 3 m tall; twigs somewhat compressed, stout, soon becoming terete; bark smooth. Leaves appearing on short shoots ca. 6 cm long, broadly elliptical, to 6 cm long and 4 cm wide, apically minutely emarginate and mucronulate, basally obtuse, stiffly coriaceous, the midvein prominent, excurrent beneath for the proximal third, the lateral veins ca. 7 on each side, prominent beneath, ob-scure above; stipules to 4 mm long, striate, soon deciduous. Inflorescences few-flowered;pedicels (in fruit) 5 mm long with distinct rounded angles; bracts and bractlets inconspicuous. Flowers (fide Schulz) with the calyx lobed 34 way down, the sepals 1.5 mm long, deltoid, keeled; petals 4 mm long, ventrally ap-pendaged; stamens 3.5 mm long. Fruit red, 7-10 mm long, variable in diameter.
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