Tree, up to 7 m high. Branchlets angular, green. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glossy above, paler below, young leaves pink to red; lamina obovate, (35-)50-80 x 10-40 mm, apex slightly emarginate, base cuneate, margins entire, slightly revolute, venation obscure below; petioles 1-7 m long. Inflorescences dense, many-flowered, short cymes. Flowers cream-coloured to pale yellow, sweetly-scented. Sepals unequal, 3 interior longer than 2 exterior, orbicular, brown-edged, margins slightly laciniate. Petals oblong, ± 2 mm long, margins slightly irregular revolute. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, with horns entire, toothed, lacerated, bifid or trifid, up to ± 10 mm in diam., orange-yellow. Seeds enveloped by thin yellow aril.
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Shrub or small tree to 7 m. Leaves leathery, obovate, slightly emarginate, cuneate at base, margins revolute. Flowers in dense, axillary cymes, whitish. Capsules orange with 3 entire or toothed wings.
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