Shrub or small tree. Branchlets terete or slightly 4-angular. Incipient bracts 3-8 mm. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes broad-elliptic or-obovate, 3-18 by 1-6 cm; base cuneate to attenuate, or rounded to sub truncate, rarely cuneate; apex acuminate, or rounded, sometimes acute, rarely shallowly notched; nerves 4-9 pairs; petiole obsolete to 1.5 cm. Condensed cymes less than 1 cm long, few-to many-flowered; peduncle very short or none, sometimes up to 2-3 mm. Flowers yellowish. Bracteoles small, ovate, 1-2 mm long. Calyx lobes subreniform, c. 1.5-2 by 2-3 mm, erose or short-lacerate. Petals rather fleshy, elliptic-oblong, broad-ovate,-elliptic, or-obovate, 2 1/3-3.5 by 1⅔-2 mm, obtuse. Stamens c. 2.5 mm long; anthers broad-oblong or ovoid, c. ⅔-4/5 by 3/5-4/5 mm, obtuse or slightly notched, acute or slightly apiculate; filaments flat, 1.5-1.75% mm, united at the lower ½-2/3. Pistil short-conical, 1.5 by 1 mm, obtuse, striate-furrowed, sometimes slightly contracted at the base. Fruits slightly oblong-ellipsoid or oblong-obovoid, c. 1 by 0.5 cm, furfuraceous, obtuse and crowned by the persistent style.
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