Branchlets terete. Leaves chartaceous, light brown to brown beneath, elliptic, 7-8 by 3.5-4 cm; base cuneate rarely obtuse; apex short-acuminate; margin usually crenate at the upper half, slightly recurved; nerves 4-7 pairs, obliquely ascending towards near the margin and curving upwards; petiole 5-8 mm. Cymes axillary or extra-axillary near the base of a new twig, simple or once forked. Peduncle very short, sometimes up to 18 mm. Bracts deltoid, fimbriate. Pedicels 4-5 mm. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx lobes unequal, the inner two much larger, semi-orbicular to reniform, 0.5-2 by 1-2.5 mm, slightly erose, reflexed at anthesis. Petals (from floral bud) suborbicular, 2 mm ø, short-ciliate. Disk fleshy, orbicular, c. 2.5 mm ø. Stamens inserted on the disk about halfway the edge and pistil; anthers +-triangular, free at lower half, slightly apiculate; filaments c. 0.75 mm. Pistil c. 2 mm emerging from the disk. Ovules attached at the base. Fruits (young) suboblanceolate or subfusiform, 1.5 by 0.5 cm.
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