Small tree, up to 12 m by 14 cm ø. Branchlets terete, rarely angular, greenish, or reddish brown. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate-oblong, 4.5-16(-25) by 2¼-7(-10) cm; base cuneate, rarely obtuse or rounded; apex acute, acuminate; margin entire, sometimes remotely serrate; nerves and veins obscure or slightly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 3—8(-15) mm. Inflorescences axillary, extra-axillary, and sometimes on internodes, usually at the basal part of the new twig, 3-10.5 cm long, loosely, dichotomously (up to 5 times) branched; peduncle 1.25-8 cm; bracts lanceolate, c. 2 mm long, fimbriate. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Flowers light yellowish or greenish yellow. Calyx lobes subre-niform, 1.5-2.5 by 2-4 mm, short-fimbriate. Petals broad-obovate, 4.5 by 4 mm, fimbriate, or rarely denticulate, areolate on the inner surface. Disk fleshy, suborbicular or obscurely 5-angular, c. 3 mm ø. Stamens inserted between the pistil and disk margin; filaments c. 2 mm, flat, subulate; anthers ± deltoid, c. 4/5 mm long, obtuse or slightly apiculate. Pistil c. 2 mm above the disk, gradually narrowed upwards. Stigma obscure. Fruits broad-obovoid or subglobose, c. 1 cm long, concave at the apex, deeply 5-lobed. Seeds ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends, 5-6 by 3-4 mm.
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