Glabrous shrub or small tree, 2–6 m. tall, with numerous spreading rather stout branches, usually very compressed and with raised lenticels when young but eventually round; bark reddish brown, dark grey or whitish, striate.. Leaves obovate or rarely obcordate, 2.5–7(–8) cm. long, 1.3–4.2(–6) cm. wide, rounded to truncate or shallowly emarginate at the apex and mucronulate, cuneate at the base, bright to brownish green and not shining above, pale or rusty beneath, subcoriaceous; venation closely reticulate and clearly visible beneath especially towards the midrib but not prominent on either side; petiole 2–5(–8) mm. long, slender, channelled above; stipules completely united, triangular-lanceolate, 2–5(–8) mm. long, acute to somewhat obtuse, with entire margin and with 2 keels, deciduous.. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2–6 in the axils of leaves or scale leaves; pedicels (0.2–)0.5–1(–1.4) cm. long, slender.. Sepals lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1–2(–3) mm. long, acute, united for about 1/4 of their length.. Petals white, oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, rounded and entire at the apex, keeled on the back, shortly and narrowly clawed; nectary 0.5–0.8 mm. long, emarginate, inserted ± 1/3 of the length above the base.. Short-styled flowers: stamens equal, ± 3.5 mm. long; staminal cup much shorter than the sepals, with a straight margin; ovary ovoid-cylindric, ± 1 mm. long; styles 3, 1–1.5 mm. long, free.. Long-styled flowers: stamens subequal, 1.8–2.5 mm. long; staminal cup and ovary as in other form; styles 3, ± 2.5 mm. long, free or nearly so.. Drupe red, cylindric-ellipsoid or obtusely 3-angled when dry, 5–6(–7) mm. long.. Fig. 1/7–12, p. 4.
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