Shrub to 5 m high. Branchlets ±terete, glabrous or stellate-puberulous, smooth or glandular-verrucose. Leaves narrowly spathulate to narrowly oblong to very broadly obovate, 10–25 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, flat, minutely crenulate towards the obtuse to rounded or sometimes slightly retuse apex, chartaceous, glabrous, smooth and glossy adaxially. Inflorescence terminal, scarcely exceeding leaves; peduncle and pedicels slender, minutely stellate; pedicel c. 3 mm long with minute caducous bract and bracteoles in lower half. Calyx lobes broadly deltate, c. 0.5 mm long, fleshy, sparsely stellate. Petals spreading, oblong-elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long, white to pale yellow, glabrous, glandular. Stamens slightly exceeding petals. Gynophore c. 0.5 mm high, slightly narrower than ovary. Carpels 5; ovary subspherical, 1–1.5 mm high, smooth or rugulose, glabrous. Cocci outwardly shortly rostrate or erostrate.
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