Small tree up to 6 m. Branchlets 4-angular. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, usually bullate (i.e. nerves and some veins depressed above), elliptic to narrow-elliptic, sometimes ovate, 7-12 by 2½-4 cm; base cuneate; apex acuminate; margin remotely crenate-serrate usually at the upper half; nerves 5-6 pairs, arching c. 0.5 cm near the leaf margin; veins obscure on both surfaces; petiole 3-5 mm. Cymes up to 4.5 cm long, very slender and lax, few-flowered, axillary or on a very short bracteate brachyblast, or extra-axillary. Peduncle very fine, 2-2.5 cm, sometimes very short. Bracts lanceolate, c. 1 mm long, sparsely short ciliate. Pedicels 8-12 mm, very fine. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx lobes semi-orbicular or reniform, 0.75-1 by 1½-3 mm, slightly concave, transparent, irregularly denticulate. Petals sub-orbicular or broad-obovate, unequal in size, 3-6 mm ø, slightly contracted at the base, irregularly denticulate, distinctly veined, areolate on the inner surface. Disk suborbicular, rather thin, c. 3 mm ø. Stamens inserted ± halfway on the disk; filaments very short; anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Pistil conical, c. 1 mm above the disk, slightly 5-angular; stigma obscure. Fruits (immature) obovoid, slightly lobed, ± truncate at the top.
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