Shrub or small tree up to 5 m. Branchlets terete. Incipient bracts 3-8 mm. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous sometimes chartaceous, ovate to lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic, 11-27.5 by 4½-12 cm; base rounded, acute, or cuneate to attenuate; apex acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse or short-apiculate; nerves 6-14 pairs; petiole 1-2 cm. Inflorescences usually paniculiform, 1¼-6 cm, rarely a simple cyme or fasciculate less than 1 cm; peduncles 1-4 cm, sometimes very short. Bracteoles slightly ovate or suborbicular, 1.25-2 mm long. Flowers 4(-5)-merous. Calyx lobes suborbicular, 2.5-3 mm ø, concave, slightly wrinkled outside, margin transparent, slightly erose. Petals broad-elliptic or-oblong, 2½-3 by 1.75-2.5 mm, obtuse. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long; anthers very broadly oblong, c. 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse and short-apiculate, connective distinct, broad on the dorsal side; filament flat, c. 1 mm, distinctly united at the lower ⅓. Pistil ± cylindric, slightly constricted at the middle, slightly furrowed, c. 2 mm long, truncate or discoid at the top, rarely notched. Fruits ellipsoid, c. 21 by 11 mm, acute to acuminate and furfuraceous at the apex, terminating in a very short, persistent style.
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