Small tree or shrub, c. 3-5 m high. Leaves spirally arranged and crowded towards the ends of the twigs, coriaceous, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, c. 4-15 by 2-4.5 cm; base attenuate to decurrent, margin often wavy; top acute and generally c. ½-1 cm acuminate; midrib, c. 5-7 pairs of nerves and the fine reticulations more or less finely impressed above, prominent below; innovations yellowish or ferrugineous-pubescent; petiole c. 0.5-1 cm. Inflorescences terminal, thyrsoid panicles, all parts ferrugineous-pubescent; peduncle c. 0.5 cm, rhachis c. 1.5-3 cm, lower branchlets 3-flowered. Bracts c. 4-5 mm long, caducous. Pedicels c. 2-3 mm. Sepals free, broadly elliptic, c. 2-2.25 by 1.5 mm, rounded or acute, membranous towards the irregular margins. Petals narrowly elliptic, rounded c. 6 by 2.5 mm. Filaments c. 3.5 mm, anthers ovate, c. 1.5 mm long, cordate at the base. Ovary subsessile, including the 5-furrowed stipe c. 2.5 by 1.25 mm, pubescent at the base, apically nearly glabrous; style c. 2 mm, stigma not capitate. Ovules 4, basal. Fruits subglobose or broader than long, 2-valved, c. 1-2 cm pedicelled, c. 8-12 by 10-14 mm, mucronate; valves thin, slightly notched at the apex. Seeds 4 or less, inserted near the base, large, c. 4-6 mm, black, smooth.
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