Shrub or small tree to 7 m high. Shoots and branchlets appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 1–3.5 mm long; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate or ovate, 3.5–20 cm long, 0.9–6 cm wide, rounded or shortly auriculate and asymmetric at base, long acuminate at apex, glabrous above, glabrescent below; secondary veins 7–9 pairs. Flowers solitary, axillary, sessile or with stout pedicels c. 1.5 mm wide; bracts broadly ovate, 1.5–2 mm long. Sepals very broadly ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, acuminate or broadly acute, appressed-pubescent. Petals 6 in 2 whorls of 3, white-cream, crimson inside near base (petals sometimes yellow, green, pink or brown, fide Cooper & Cooper 2004: 23). Outer petals ovate or obovate, 5.2–7.2 mm long, 4.2–6 mm wide, obtuse. Inner petals narrowly ovate, obovate or oblong, 6.5–7.1 mm long, 3.2–4 mm wide, joined to form a shelter over the stamens (Cooper & Cooper 2004: 23). Stamens 35–70, 1.5 mm long. Carpels 9–15; ovary 1.2–1.5 mm long; ovules 2; stigma capitate. Apocarps ellipsoidal, 11–16 (–19) mm long, 9–13 (–16) mm wide, black, glabrous or nearly so; stipe 1–5 mm long. Seeds 1 or 2 (3).
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