Shrub or small tree, up to 5 m. Branchlets terete. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, rarely coriaceous, ovate-oblong, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate to obovate-oblong, 7.5-15 by 2½-7 cm; base cuneate to narrow-cuneate; apex acuminate; margins entire, sometimes obscurely, remotely serrulate; nerves 7-9 pairs, towards the margin loosely arching-anastomosing; petiole 5-8 mm. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, at the base of the new twigs, or crowded on the undeveloped shoot in the leaf-axil, 1-7½ cm long, sometimes very short. Peduncle very short, sometimes up to c. 5 cm. Bracts lanceolate, 0.5-2.5 mm long, fimbriate. Pedicels (5-)8-14 mm. Flowers pmk or dull red, 5-merous. Calyx lobes unequal in size, subreniform or suborbicular, 1-2 by 1-2½ mm, slightly erose. Petals broad-obovate, broad-elliptic or suborbicular, 3-4 by 2.5-3 mm, irregularly minutely denticulate, areolate. Disk 1½-2 mm ø, ± round, or obscurely 5-lobed. Stamens inserted on the disk between its margin and pistil; anthers ± deltoid; filament short. Pistil very short, sometimes emerging c. 0.5 mm from the disk, 5-angular at base. Fruits broadly obovoid, 17-25 by 13-17 mm, concave at the apex, distinctly 5-lobed, gradually narrowed towards the base. Seeds ellipsoid, 13 by 6 mm, reddish-or dark-brown.
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