Shrubs ca. 5 m tall. Terminal buds and young branchlets brown pubescent; old branchlets glabrous, sparsely and inconspicuously lenticellate. Leaves clustered at branchlet apex; petiole 5–10 cm; leaf blade shiny adaxially, dark green after drying, narrowly oblong, 6–9 × 2–3.5 cm, hard leathery, glabrous abaxially, lateral veins ca. 5-paired, visible abaxially, indistinct adaxially, reticulate veins indistinct on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal, umbellate or racemose, ca. 2 cm, brown pubescent; peduncle very short; bracts deciduous; bracteoles lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, pubescent; pedicels 5–8 mm, pubescent. Sepals ovate, ca. 2 mm, apex obtuse. Petals 6–7 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Ovary pubescent; placentas in middle part of valves; ovules ca. 4; stipe very short. Style pubescent proximally. Capsule globose, 6–8 mm in diam., glabrous, dehiscing by 2 valves; pericarp thinly woody, horizontally striate adaxially. Seeds ca. 4, compressed globose, ca. 5 mm; funicle very short. Fl. Jan–May, fr. Jan–Oct.
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