Shrub, evergreen, wholly glabrous. Leaves with the blades very broadly cuneate-obovate to subeircular, the base cuneate or acute, decurrent over the petiole, thickly at the apex diminishing to thin wing-like decurrency over the lower 3/4-4/5, (3.3-)3.8-5.3(-6) cm long, (2.2-)2.8-4.8 cm broad, shining or brown-green above, paler and duller beneath, punctate, the punctations red, turning black, thickly coriaceous, the margins thickened, revolute, distantly appressed-crenulate, the crenulations callosed or spine-tipped, mostly on the upper 1/3 of the margin and less distant near the rounded apex of the blade, the costa plane or little impressed above, little elevated beneath, the veins and veinlets ? obsolete above, inconspicu-ous beneath; petiole thickened, turning black when dry, mostly 9-12 mm long. 6' flowers (from buds) mostly borne at the base of new wood, usually fasciculate, sometimes aggregated-subfasciculate, axillary to leaves or nodes, occasionally later-ally fasciculate directly on old wood (very rarely apparently from a mixed bud), pedicellate, 4-(5-)merous; pedicels up to 3 mm long; calyx-lobes longer than the tube, broadly ovate, obtuse; immature petals only ca 1.5 mm long, ovate; immature stamens ca 1 mm long, anthers oblong to ovate, dark brown to black, much exceed-ing the thickened black filaments; pistillodium pulvinate to ovoid, a conic style developed or not. 9 flowers unknown. Fruit unknown.
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