Deciduous shrubs, slender, to 4 m tall; branches terete, slender, twigs green to light green, slender, 4-angled. Petiole slender, 2-4 mm; leaf blade thinly leathery or thickly papery, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 4-5 × 1.2-2 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire to crenulate or remotely serrate distally, apex acuminate or long acute; lateral veins not obvious, curving forward and webbing and disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle 3-4 cm, slender, 1 or 2 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel 3-5 mm. Flowers 4-merous (not seen). Capsule rhombic, 4-angled and deeply grooved, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown, 8(-10) mm × 1.2(-1.4) cm. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown; aril orange-red. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug-Nov.
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