Deciduous shrubs, 2-3 m tall; branches and twigs moderately sturdy, striate, brown or gray-brown when dry. Petiole sturdy, less than ca. 1 cm; leaf blade thickly papery or thinly leathery, ovate-elliptic, ovate, or broadly elliptic, 9-15 × 5.5-8.5 cm, widest at mid-blade, base subrotund, cuneate, or attenuate, margin crenulate, apex acuminate or acute; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, branching and disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle slender, 5-8 cm, 1-3 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel slender, 5-6 mm. Flowers 5-merous, 7-9 mm in diam.; sepals suborbicular, short; petals reddish to purple or brown, ovate, base cuneate. Ovary weakly angulate, 5-loculed, sometimes only 3 or 4 locules developing. Capsule green to brown, or yellow-brown when dry, nearly globose, ca. 1 cm in diam., with 5 short and obtuse wings, less than ca. 5 mm when fully developed, sometimes only 3 or 4 wings developing. Aril bright red. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.
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A shrub. It grows 2-3 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves become highly coloured in autumn. The leaves are oval and 9-15 cm long by 6-9 cm wide.
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