Shrub up to 2 m. Branchlets reddish-to dark-brown, glabrous. Leaves papery, rarely subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes brownish or brownish-green when dry, elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate; 7-16 by 2.5-7 cm; cuneate to attenuate towards the base; acuminate at the apex, sometimes with an acumen c. 2 cm long; nerves 6-10 pairs, spreading towards the margin and then curved upwards, prominent and elevated beneath, slightly elevated above; veins reticulate, distinct beneath, obscure above; petiole c. 5 mm. Inflorescences terminal, and/or in the leaf axils of the terminal one or two nodes, 6-10-flowered; peduncle none to 12 mm; involucral bracts 4, slightly obovate, c. 5 by 3 mm, usually caducous, sometimes persistent. Flowers 1.5-2(-2.5) cm long. Floral tube glabrous on both surfaces, rarely puberulous inside. Calyx lobes slightly oblong, 5-8 mm long, densely puberulous inside and on the margins outside. Stamens and pistil slightly exserted. Disk cup-shaped, crenate, c. 0.75 mm long. Ovary usually pubescent or puberulous at the apex, rarely glabrescent or glabrous. Fruits ellipsoid, acute or acuminate towards both ends, 1.5 by 1 cm, rarely the basal part of the endocarp inside with small meshes. Seeds ellipsoid, plano-convex, 8 by 5 mm with a caruncle-like appendage, c. 1.5 mm long.
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