Shrubs to 3 m tall, the branchlets terete, slender, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves persisting at the tips of the twigs, ascending, elliptic, often slightly falcate, 4.0-6.5 cm long, 1.5-3.0 cm wide, acute or subobtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen triangular, to 1 cm long, ultimately obtuse, basally acute or attenuate acute, the costa prominulous, the lateral veins ca. 7, arcuate, prom-inulous, the submarginal vein inconspicuous, chartaceous, concolorous, glabrous, minutely granulose beneath; petioles slender, to 1 cm long, to 0.6 cm wide; sti-pules deciduous. Inflorescences (in fruit) umbelliform, to 5 cm long, to 3 cm wide, the peduncle slender, to 3 cm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, glabrous, terminated by 3 radially disposed branches, these to 1.8 cm long. Flowers deciduous, few, 5-8 on each branch, the pairs of flowers ca. 0.4 cm apart. Fruits subsessile, compressed-rotund, to 1 cm in diam., glabrous, obtusely 12-costate, the persistent disc of the ovary umbonate.
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