Evergreen shrubs, ascending subshrubs; branches gray-green to gray-brown, terete, glabrous, twigs green to light green, glabrous. Petiole 2-4 cm; leaf blade thinly leathery, obovate, elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 6-10 × 3-5 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate, apex acute; lateral veins ca. 7 pairs. Peduncle up to 8 cm, several flowered; pedicel 4-7 mm. Flowers 4-merous, ca. 6 mm in diam.; sepals semirotund; petals green, yellowish green, or whitish, suborbicular. Capsule globose or subglobose, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown, 6-9 mm in diam., 4-lobed. Seeds dark brown; aril orange-red. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec.
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