Small tree up to 15 m by 25 cm. Young branches puberulous. Leaves elliptic-oblong to rarely obovate, 12-18.5 by 3-6.5 cm, entire, rarely with fascicles of hairs or serrulate, usually glabrous, rarely with minute stellate hairs on the veins, sometimes also on both surfaces of the young blades, shortly acuminate, base rounded to cuneate; nerves and veins elevated beneath, visible or slightly elevated above; petiole 8-10 mm. Stipules 10 mm long. Calyx (incl. ovary) glabrous or short-sparingly hairy outside, 51h-9 by 3 mm, (3-)4(-5)-lobed, lobes deltoid, 2 mm long, acuminate, tube cylindric c. 3 mm long. Petals obovate, 1½-2½ mm long, apex rounded sometimes slightly emarginate and denticulate. Ovary 9-celled; style distinctly ridged, 3 mm long, with short, straight hairs; stigma discoid and slightly lobed. Fruits subglobose, glabrous, 10 mm diam., greenish-yellow when ripening. Seeds 1-1½ mm long, ellipsoid.
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