Small tree up to c. 9 m tall. Leaves narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, 10-17 by 3-5 cm, gradually acuminate, base rounded, rarely cuneate, margin serrulate to serrate; midrib elevated beneath, depressed above; nerves elevated beneath, visible above; young leaves with minute, scale-like, short, stellate hairs on both surfaces, glabrescent; petiole 7-10 mm. Stipules 1.5 cm long. Pedicels c. 1 mm. Calyx (incl. ovary) green, 7-12 by 4 mm, with scattered, minute, scaly, stellate hairs outside; lobes 5(-6), deltoid, 2 mm long; tube cylindric, slightly contracted at the middle, with a zone of villous hairs near the base. Petals green, elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, the upper end fringed with filamentous appendages up to 5 mm long. Ovary c. 2 mm long, 10-celled; style columnar, slightly ridged, covered with short straight hairs; stigma capitate, slightly grooved. Fruits subglobose, c. 1 cm in diam., calyx lobes erect. Seeds ellipsoid, transversely striate, c. 1.5 mm long.
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