Tree, 2-7 m high. Leaf-blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, sometimes ovate or obovate, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide, apex acute to rounded, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire or irregularly crenate-serrate, wavy, midrib fairly prominent above, lateral veins 6, half-angled, dark-green and shiny above, paler below, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 3-7 mm long, channelled. Inflorescence of axillary, terminal panicles, divaricately branched; peduncles 2-3 mm long, puberulous; pedicels 2-5 mm long, puberulous. Calyx-tube pubescent; sepals 8 or 9, subulate, slightly shorter than petals, 1.4-2.4 mm long, 0.25 mm wide, pubescent, margins ciliate; glands opposite sepals, club-shaped, 0.4 mm long. Petals 8 or 9, elliptic-spathulate, 2-3 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, pubescent, margins white-ciliate. Stamens 8 or 9, terete, 2.7-3 mm long, sparsely hairy in lower half; anthers transversely elliptic, 0.4 mm long. Ovary cone-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, tomentulose, with few to many ovules; styles 4 or 5, free and glabrous in upper half; stigmas simple. Fruits pilose inside, few-seeded.
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Tree, 3-6 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate; elliptic to broadly elliptic, margins entire or irregularly crenate-serrate. Inflorescence axillary, terminal panicle. Flowers bisexual. Calyx turbinate; sepals 8 or 9, subulate, shorter than petals. Petals 8 or 9, elliptic-spathulate, margins white-ciliate, alternating with sepals. Stamens 8 or 9, terete; anthers transversely elliptic. Ovary cone-shaped, semi-superior, 1-locular, 2-5 parietal placentas; styles 4 or 5; stigmas simple. Flowering time July-Jan. Fruit a leathery capsule, few-seeded, opening at apex by 2-5 valves.
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