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Leaves alternate or in fascicles on abbreviated side shoots, simple; lamina 0.7–3.7 x 0.25–0.7 cm., very narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, apex rounded or subacute, mucronulate, base very narrowly rounded or cuneate, glabrous on both sides, upper surface smooth and rather polished, dull below; nerves in 5–6 pairs, inconspicuous above, slightly raised below; petioles up to 2 mm. long, channelled above and puberulous along the sides of the furrow.
Ovary on a gynophore up to 1 .6 cm. long, narrowly oblong; ovules c. 20 on 2 placentas which carry a single row of ovules on each placenta not two rows as is usual in this genus; style up to 1 mm. long; stigma subcapitate.
Receptacle 3.5–5.0 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide at the mouth, narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous, with a slightly thickened very slightly dentate disk at the inner margin.
Flowers solitary or occasionally in pairs on the abbreviated side shoots; pedicels up to 3 cm. long, glabrous, slender; bracts up to 1 mm. long, trifid, subulate.
Sepals 1.2–1.4 x 0.5 cm., oblong-lanceolate, apex apiculate or acuminate, glabrous on both sides, margins puberulous.
A straggling branched shrub up to 4 m. tall; branches glabrous, becoming densely lenticelled; bark pale grey.
Fruit c. 4 cm. long, cylindric, somewhat torulose, smooth, abruptly narrowed at the apex.
Stamens 15–20; filaments c. 2 cm. long; anthers 3 x 1 mm., narrowly oblong.
Petals 2 x 1 mm., oblong, blunt at the apex, or absent.
Androgynophore slightly longer than the receptacle.
