Shrubs or small trees. One-year-old branchlets purplish brown; older branchlets blackish brown, glabrous. Petiole 1.4-2.6 cm, glabrous; leaf blade obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, 12-20 × 4-7 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially sparsely gray-yellow sericeous-puberulent to glabrate, adaxially glabrous, midrib elevated abaxially, concave adaxially, lateral veins 10-12 pairs, veinlets foveolate on both surfaces. Panicles terminal, 5-8 cm, gray-yellow pubescent, branched nearly at top of peduncle. Pedicel 4-5 mm. Flowers greenish yellow. Perianth lobes oblong, 6-7 × ca. 4 mm, outer ones more narrow, gray-yellow sericeous-puberulent on both surfaces. Stamens glabrous; glands of 3rd series stipitate. Staminodes sagittate. Ovary ovoid-globose; style longer than ovary. Fruit globose, 8-12 mm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes ca. 7 × 4 mm; fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm.
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