Trees, 5-14 m tall. Lower part of 1-year-old branchlet and shortened branchlet puberulent only, with sparse small lenticels. Buds small, densely dirty yellowish pubescent. Leaves congested on upper part of branchlet; petiole slender, 1.2-1.6(-2.2) cm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially brownish, adaxially shiny, obovate or obovate-elliptic, 8-14 × 2.8-6.3 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially densely or sparsely pubescent, midrib elevated abaxially, concave adaxially, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, adaxially inconspicuous, veinlets slender, foveolate on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate or acute-acuminate, summit obtuse. Flowers unknown. Infructescences paniculate, arising from lower part of 1-year-old branchlet, 8-15 cm, puberulent, branched at upper part of peduncle; peduncle 4-8 cm. Fruit deep green when immature, globose, ca. 7 mm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes oblong, ca. 4 mm, outer ones shorter, puberulent on both surfaces; fruiting pedicel 6-8 mm. Fr. May.
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