Small tree or shrub up to 9 m. Branchlets terete, or sometimes slightly 4-angular. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, obovate, obovate-oblong, elliptic, rarely suborbicular, 3¼-7 by 1.5-3.75 cm; base cuneate to attenuate, sometimes de-current; apex acute, rarely short-acuminate, sometimes obtuse and apiculate, the tip usually damaged; nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole 2-10 mm. Cymes up to 1.5 cm, (1-)3-flowered, occasionally a central axis elongated above the first pair of flowers and more-flowered; peduncle 1.25-1⅓ cm. Flowers white. Bracteoles ovate, c. 1 mm long. Calyx lobes suborbicular to subreniform, 2-2.5 by 2.5-3 1/3 mm, erose. Petals elliptic, 3.75 by 2 mm. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long; anthers subglobose, c. 4/5 by 0.75 mm, slightly apiculate; filaments flat, 1.75 mm long, gradually dilated towards the base, united at the lower half. Pistil short-conical, 1.5 by 1 mm, slightly longitudinally striate, obtuse or sometimes obscurely 2-lobed. Fruits (young) ellipsoid, furfuraceous.
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