Small tree c. 6 m by 20 cm ø. Branchlets terete sometimes slightly angular. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 8-13.5 by 3-4½ cm; base narrowly cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 5-7 pairs, elevated below and slightly depressed above, obliquely spreading towards near the margin and then turning upward; petiole very short, c. 2 mm, furrowed above, round beneath. Panicles up to 9 cm long, usually branched from the base. Peduncle very short. Pedicels 5-7 mm. Flowers yellowish. Calyx almost as large as or slightly exceeding the disk; lobes deltoid, c. 1 mm long and wide; margins short-fimbriate, apex acuminate, +-pointed and turning upwards at anthesis. Petals suborbicular, c. 2 by 2 mm, entire sometimes slightly erose. Disk dish-shaped, the margin slightly curved upwards, 5-lobed, lobes deltoid, c. 1 mm long and wide. Stamens very short; anthers suborbicular, c. 0.5 mm ø, obtuse. Pistil c. ⅓ mm emerging from the disk, pyramidal; style and stigma obscure. Ovules 4 in each cell.
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