Shrub, or tree to 12 m high. Branchlets somewhat verrucose or smooth. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate and c. 3 cm long to elliptic and 10 cm long, 0.8–2.2 cm wide, entire, acuminate to rounded or retuse, smooth, glabrous and glossy adaxially, silvery-lepidote abaxially. Flowers 1–20, in compact or loose cymes ⅓–⅔ length of leaf; peduncle angular, silvery-lepidote; pedicels 1–5 mm long; bracteoles medially placed, ovate to linear, 0.5–1 mm long. Sepals deltate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Petals elliptic, 5 mm long, thin, white, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to petals; filaments glabrous or ±hirsute. Disc thick, ± equal in width to ovary. Ovary broadly pyramidal to subspherical, c. 1 mm high, glabrous. Cocci rounded at apex and minutely apiculate on outer angle.
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