Shrub to 6 m tall; young branches ± glabrous.. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 1.5–10.5 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, margin serrate, glabrous; petiole 4–8 mm long, ± glabrous, concolorous.. Inflorescence a 1–3(–4)-flowered cyme, 1–3 in a leaf-axil; peduncle 6–14 mm long; pedicels 5–8 mm long.. Flowers yellow, buds with greyish white minute indumentum that often contrasts when dried with the blackish pedicels; sepals 4–6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide; petals linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, ± 1 mm wide, acute at the apex.. Androgynophore glabrous for 1–1.5 mm, pubescent at the apex.. Stamens 3–4 mm long.. Ovary ± 0.5 mm long, minutely greyish pubescent; style 2–4 mm long.. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 4–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, ± glabrous.. Fig. 4/47 (leaf, p. 11).
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