Evergreen shrubs to small trees, 2-10 m tall; branches gray-black to gray-brown, terete, sturdy, twigs greenish or yellow-greenish, striate. Petiole 5-8(-12) mm; leaf blade leathery to thickly papery, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6.5-10(-15) × 3-4(-6) cm, base cuneate or acuminate, margin entire to crenulate, apex acute or acuminate, sometimes shortly caudate; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, not evident, slightly curving forward, redividing and disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle typically many, 1.5-3.5 cm, 1-3(-4) × dichotomously branched with many flowers; pedicel 5-10 mm. Flowers 4-merous, 5-6 mm in diam.; sepals semiorbicular; petals whitish green, orbicular to obovate. Capsule tetra-globose, 4-angled, pinkish or reddish when fresh, brown or yellow-brown to red-brown when dry, (0.9-)1.5-1.7 × (1.2-)1.4-1.6 cm. Seeds ovoid, dark brown; aril orange. Fl. Mar-Jul, fr. Jul-Jan.
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