Small tree up to 15 m by 30 cm ø. Branchlets terete. Incipient bracts 2-7 mm. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic rarely ovate, 7-11 by 3½-5 cm; base attenuate; apex short-acuminate to acuminate, sometimes acute; nerves 4-7 pairs; petiole 5-8 mm. Inflorescences paniculate-cymose, up to 4½ cm long, few-to many-flowered; peduncle 7-14 mm. Flowers green or greenish-white; bracteoles broad-ovate, c. 1 mm long, sometimes keeled outside. Calyx lobes suborbicular, 1-1 1/3 mm ø, two opposite pairs, denticulate. Corolla c. 2.5 mm long, the lobes very broad-oblong, or ± quadrangular, 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long; anthers suborbicular, free at the lower ⅓, c. 2/5 mm long, obtuse or slightly apiculate, usually perpendicularly bent towards the center; filaments subulate, fleshy, c. 1 mm, inserted at the base of the corolla tube and usually the lower half adnate to it; anthers dorso-basifixed. Pistil short-conical, c. 1 by 1 mm, obtuse, slightly furrowed. Fruits ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, 12-15 by 8-10 mm, obtuse, furfuraceous; persistent calyx lobes patent.
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