Evergreen shrubs, 1-2 m tall. Petiole slightly thick, 5-8 mm; leaf blade thickly papery or thinly leathery, oblong, oblong-ovate, or narrowly elliptic, 10-22 × 4-8 cm, base broadly cuneate, margin sparsely denticulate or serrate, apex often obliquely acuminate; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, anastomosing at margin, sometimes appearing rugose due to depressed veins. Cymes 1-3 × dichotomously branched; peduncle 2-4 cm, branches 1.5-3 cm; pedicels 4-10 mm; bract and bractlets 3-6 mm. Flowers white-green, 0.8-1 cm in diam.; petals orbicular. Stamens inserted on margin of disciform disk; filament less than 1 mm. Ovary partly immersed in disk. Capsule subglobose, pallid green or yellow-white when dry, 1-1.5 cm in diam., densely squarrulose maculate. Seeds brown, ca. 1.2 cm, ca. 1/2 covered by aril. Fl. Aug-Jun, fr. Sep-Nov.
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