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Shrub or small tree 1–5 m. high, sometimes much branched, with rough whitish bark; branches spreading, purplish-brown and striate at first, soon becoming whitish and terete with few lenticels.
Flowers 3–4 (5), in umbels terminating short axillary shoots; pedicels 1·3–3 cm. long in fruit, articulated within 3 mm. of the base.
Sepals 4–5 mm. long in flower, elliptic, rounded, becoming orange-red, 9–11 mm. long, flat and spreading in fruit.
Stamens with anthers 1·5–2 mm. long, as long as the filaments, straight, dehiscing by apical pores.
Drupelets 5–6 × 5–6 mm., globose or subglobose, inserted near the base; embryo straight.
Petals bright yellow, 11–12 × 6–8 mm., obovate or oblong-obovate, shortly unguiculate.
Carpels 5 (7), with styles almost completely united; stigmas slightly enlarged.
