Shrubs or small trees. Young branchlets brown, lenticellate. Leaves clustered at branchlet apex, biennial; petiole stout, 1–2 cm or more; leaf blade dark brown adaxially after drying, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 8–20 × 4–8 cm, thickly leathery, glabrous abaxially, lateral veins convex adaxially, base cuneate, margin flat, reflexed afer drying, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate or compoundly corymbose-paniculate, usually brown pubescent; pedicels 7–10 mm. Sepals slightly connate at base, ovate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or margin ciliate. Petals narrowly oblong, 5–6 mm. Stamens ca. 4 mm. Ovary ca. 2 mm, pubescent. Style ca. 1 mm, glabrous; stigmas capitate. Capsule globose, 6–7 mm in diam., dehiscing by 2 valves; pericarp orbicular, thin, horizontally striate adaxially; placentas at base of valves. Seeds 4–8, 2–3 mm in diam; funicle very short. Fl. Mar–May, fr. May–Nov.
Warm, evergreen, broadleaved forests; at elevations from 400-2,000 metres.
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