Shrub or tree to 10 m tall; sometimes (?hemi-)epiphytic; twigs glabrate with only a few minute, pulverulent hairs near the nodes or none. Leaves elliptic, apically long-acuminate, basally acute or obtuse, chartaceous, glabrous above but often drying with a punctate appearance, glabrate beneath and often barbellate in the vein axils, often some scattered hairs along the midvein; petioles 1-2.5 cm long; minor leaves wanting, or when present like the majors and giving the node an opposite-leaved appearance. Inflorescence solitary or a few-to many-flowered fascicle; pedicels slender, drying dark, glabrous or with a few minute, degenerate hairs, ca. 18 mm long, not altering much in fruit. Flowers with the calyx cyathiform, glabrous, edentate with little suggestion of teeth, 2-3 mm deep; corolla purplish, 10 mm long, lobed to near the base with narrow, membranous plicae, glabrous except for a few hairs at the tip of the lobes; stamens equal, the anthers 6-7 mm long, united into an ellipsoidal column ca. 3 mm across, glabrous, yellow; style slender, exserted. Fruits globose, fleshy, 7 mm across; the calyx becoming a woody peltate disc 5-6 mm across, free from the fruit; seeds 1.5 mm across, discoid with a distinct margin, foveate, yellow.
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