Shrub or tree, up to 15 m high. Branchlets angular, becoming terete, sometimes reddish. Leaves alternate, membranous or subcoriaceous, dark glossy green above, paler below; lamina elliptic to ovate, (9-)17-50(-80) x 8-40 mm, apex acute to long acuminate, base cuneate, margins serrate; midrib of young leaves reddish; petioles 2-10 mm long. Inflorescences monochasial cymes; peduncles 0.5-2.0 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, whitish, yellow, orange to pink; pedicels 3-13 mm long. Sepals subcircular, ± 12 mm long, margins entire. Petals subcircular, 1.5-2.5 mm long, margins entire. Stamens much shorter than petals. Fruit a 2-or 3-valved, or abortively 1-locular, obovoid capsule, 3-11 mm long, smooth, yellow to red. Seeds completely enveloped by orange aril.
Leaves not fasciculate, petiolate;lamina dark green and ± glossy above, paler below, (1)1·7–12·1(13·5) × (0·5)0·8–4·7 cm., ovate to narrowly lanceolate or rarely elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate and frequently mucronate to acute or rarely obtuse at the apex, with margin acutely glandular-denticulate to crenulate-denticulate or more rarely entire, cuneate or angustate to rounded at the base, chartaceous to coriaceous, with lateral nerves and reticulate venation prominent below but not or scarcely so above; petiole (1)2–7(10) mm. long.
Cymes monochasial after 1st to 3rd branching or pseudumbellate to fasciculate, with peduncle up to 21 mm. long or more rarely absent, in axil of foliage leaves; pedicels up to 13 mm. long or more rarely absent, articulated at the base or in the lower 2/5; flowers c. 2–20 in each cyme or solitary, 3–5(6) mm. in diam.
Shrub or small tree to 10 m. Leaves alternate, dark green and glossy above, paler beneath, ovate to lanceolate, toothed, with silky threads when broken. Flowers in axillary fascicles, white. Capsules yellow.
Shrub or tree (0·3)1–15 m. high, unarmed, glabrous, with latex threads in branches, leaves, flowers and fruits; branches ± markedly 4-lined when young, eventually terete and longitudinally striate.
Capsule yellow to orange or red, 4–11 mm. long, 3-lobed with lobes rounded, smooth, ascending, or 2-lobed to obovoid or globose due to abortion of 1–2 loculi.
Petals 5, green to white or white-tinged-red or deep red, 1·5–2·5 mm. long, broadly obovate to suborbicular, sessile or shortly unguiculate, entire.
Ovary 3-locular, pyramidal, c. 1/2-immersed in disk; style absent; stigma slightly 3-lobed.
Stamens 5, with filaments 0·1–0·2 mm. long, flattened, united with outer margin of disk.
Seeds 1–3, orange-brown to dark brown, completely enclosed by an orange aril.
Sepals 5, unequal, 0·7–1·2 mm. long, suborbicular, rounded.
Disk 5-angled, concave, with very short free margin.
A shrub.