Shrub or small tree 2–7 m high. Branchlets terete, verrucose, blue-green, glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic to narrowly obovate, mostly to 3–5 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, narrowed towards base, acute to rounded at apex, mucronulate, chartaceous, glabrous; margin wrinkled due to small warts. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3; peduncle absent; pedicels slender, 6–12 mm long, glabrous. Sepals suborbicular, c. 1 mm long, somewhat fleshy, glabrous. Petals elliptic, 6–7 mm long, white, glabrous. Stamens: filaments linear-attenuate, pilose; anthers c. 1 mm long, with a minute, blunt, white apiculum. Carpels united at periphery; style glabrous. Capsule spherical, c. 5 mm high; cocci eventually separating and slightly spreading, not apiculate.
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