Treelets ca. 6 m tall, monoecious; branchlets glabrous. Petiole ca. 4 mm; leaf blade lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 5-7 × 2-3 cm, papery or subleathery, glaucous adaxially, brownish green abaxially, glabrous on both surfaces, base acute or rounded, inequilateral, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs. Flowers in axillary or supra-axillary cymes. Male flowers: sepals 6, oblong, imbricate; stamens 4(-6), connate; anthers oblong, connectives lanceolate. Female flowers: sepals 6, oblong, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces; ovary subglobose, pubescent, 5-locular; ovules 2 per locule; styles connate into a long cylindric column, exserted past sepals, 6-lobed at apex. Capsules depressed globose, 8-10 mm in diam., glabrous, 8-10-grooved. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jun-Oct.
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