Pseudoscolopia polyantha Gilg

Shrub or tree up to 5 m high. Branchlets angled, glabrous. Leaf-blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 4-6.5 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base cuneate, margin serrate with cartilaginous teeth or nearly entire, midrib prominent below, lateral veins 5 or 6, not very conspicuous, coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence 4-6-flowered, 2-3 cm long. Flowers bisexual; pedicels 6-11 mm long, puberulous. Sepals elliptic, 6-7 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, apex acuminate, pubescent, margins ciliate. Petals subsimilar to sepals. Stamens many; filaments 2-4 mm long, glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1 mm long, prominently arcuate. Ovary ovoid-subglobose, 1.5-2 mm long, villous; style terete, 3 mm long, glabrous; stigma 2 or 3-fid, arms c. 1.5 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 5 mm diam., with persistent style. Seeds ellipsoid, 3 mm long, stellately pubescent.