Glabrous, glossy shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets flattened with prominent acute angles, minutely verrucose. Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong to spathulate, 25–50 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, minutely crenulate towards the obtuse to rounded apex, chartaceous, smooth. Inflorescence a terminal cyme of 10–20 flowers; pedicels slender, 4–8 mm long, subtended by minute caducous bract and bracteoles towards base. Calyx hemispherical, 0.5 mm long; lobes broadly deltate, 0.25 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly obovate, c. 4 mm long, yellowish white. Stamens ±equal to petals. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm high, slightly narrower than ovary. Carpels 5, sterile at extreme apex; ovary subspherical, c. 1 mm high. Fruit not seen.
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