Shrub or small tree up to 15 m. Branchlets terete. Incipient bracts 0.5-1 cm. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes ovate to lanceolate, 4.5-22 by 2-11 cm; base cuneate; apex acute to acuminate; nerves 5-9 pairs; petiole 3-13 mm. Inflorescences usually in several leaf-axils along the branchlet, sometimes extra-axillary near the base of a young shoot, rarely ramiflorous, ± condensed or short-to distinct-peduncled, rather laxly cymose, 1-5 cm long, few-flowered; peduncles when present 0.5-1.5 cm, densely furfuraceous. Bracteoles deltoid, c. 0.5 mm long. Flowers white, 5-merous, occasionally a few flowers 4-merous. Calyx lobes ± semi-orbicular, sometimes subreniform, 1-1.5 by 1½-2¼ mm, in full developed flowers 3-4.5 mm. Petals elliptic-or ovate-oblong, or slightly oblong, 3-4 by 1 1/3-2 mm, up to 5 by 3 mm. Stamens c. 2-2.5 mm, finally 3.5 mm long; filaments flat, united at the lower ⅓-2/3; anthers broad-oblong, 4/5—1 mm long, obtuse; connective broad and prominent on both sides, shortly sometimes distinctly protruding beyond the anther-cells. Pistil ovoid-oblong, 2-3 by 0.75-1 mm, slightly, gradually narrowed to the apex; apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely notched. Fruits ellipsoid or obovoid, irregularly, obscurely striate in the dry state, 1¼-2 by 0.75-1 ⅓ cm, furfuraceous; apex short-acuminate, sometimes forming a distinct beak 5-12 mm.
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