Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets ±terete, smooth, glossy, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, to c. 5 cm long, to 2 cm wide, narrowed at base, entire, obtuse, papery, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, multiflowered, c. 2 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long, sparsely puberulous with simple and fasciculate hairs; bracteoles caducous. Sepals very shortly united at base, fleshy, deltate, c. 0.8 mm long. Petals narrowly oblong, c. 4.5 mm long, strongly keeled, white, glabrous. Stamens shortly exceeding petals; filaments slender, terete; anthers cordate, c. 1.2 mm long, bluntly and minutely apiculate. Gynophore 0.5 mm high, deeply 10-grooved. Carpels 5; ovary barrel-shaped, c. 1.3 mm high, terminal 1/3 solid. Cocci not seen.
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