Evergreen shrubs or ascending subshrubs, 6-8 m tall; branches and twigs rounded, with lenticels when old, usually brown or dark brown. Leaves sessile or with very short petiole, less than ca. 3 mm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 8-16 × 4-8 cm, base rounded to cordate, apex acute; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, prominent abaxially. Peduncle 3-4 cm, slender, usually several flowered, sometimes more than 5-flowered; pedicel usually less than ca. 9 mm. Flowers 4-merous, ca. 6 mm in diam.; sepals semirotund; petals nearly orbicular, greenish. Capsule brown or green-brown, densely white spotted, sometimes white scalelike, less than ca. 8 mm in diam. Aril red. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Aug-Dec.
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