Shrub, 2-7 m tall. Branchlets terete or sometimes slightly angular. Incipient bracts 4-12 mm long. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, ovate to lanceolate, sometimes obovate, rarely broad-elliptic, 4.5-24 by 4½-11 cm; base acute to cuneate; apex acute to short-acuminate; nerves 6-12 pairs; petiole 1.25-2 cm. Paniculate and/or sometimes dichotomous cymes up to 3.5 cm long, rarely fascicles and cauline; peduncles usually present, rather stout, 1-1.5 cm, sometimes very short or none. Bracteoles suborbicular or ovate, 1-2 mm long, slightly erose. Flowers 5(-4)-merous. Calyx lobes suborbicular or subreniform, 2-3.25 by 2-3.5 mm, slightly concave and wrinkled outside, erose. Petals elliptic or broad-ovate, 2¼-3 by 1.75 mm, obtuse. Stamens 1.75-2.75 mm long; anthers broad-oblong,-ovoid, or subglobose, 0.5-0.8 mm long, obtuse, or short-apiculate; filaments 1.25-1¾ mm, united at the lower 0.75-1 mm. Pistil short-conical, 1.5-1¾ mm long; apex obtuse rarely notched. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, 1-2.5 by 1-1.25 cm; apex acute, short-acuminate, or rostrate, furfuraceous near the tip.
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