Small tree or shrub, up to 7 m. Branchlets terete. Incipient bracts small, c. 2 mm long. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, ovate to lanceolate, (6-)12-20½ by 2½-8 cm; base acute to attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 6-10 pairs; petiole 5-8 mm. Cymes 2-10 cm, 2-5 times dichotomously branched, rarely simple, few-to many-flowered; peduncle 1-7.5 cm. Flowers pale-greenish-yellow or yellowish; bracteoles deltoid, c. 1 mm long and wide. Calyx lobes suborbicular to subreniform, 2/3-1½ by 1-2.5 mm, very short-fimbriate or slightly erose and transparent on the margin. Petals free, oblong or oblong-ovate, sometimes slightly contracted at the base, the inner one or two concave or laterally folded, 2.5-3.75 by 1.25-1.75 mm. Stamens c. 1 1/3 mm long; filaments flat, basifixed, c. 4/5 mm, united at the lower half or lower 1/3; anthers oblong, c. 2/3 mm long, obtuse. Pistil c. 1.5 mm long, cylindric, slightly contracted at the middle, slightly ridged; stigma discoid. Fruits ellipsoid, 1.25-1.5 by 4/5-1 cm, furfuraceous, glabrescent; style persistent.
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