Slender shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets strongly angular, smooth. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic, 7–12 cm long, 1.1–3.3 cm wide, chartaceous, smooth, glabrous or sparsely lepidote. Flowers in axillary and terminal lepidote cymes; pedicels 4–12 mm long; bracteoles minute, medial. Calyx silvery-lepidote; tube shortly hemispherical, c. 1.5 mm high, smooth; lobes triangular. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 6 mm long, 3 mm wide, white, silvery-lepidote abaxially, not persistent. Stamens glabrous, slightly shorter than petals; filaments linear-lanceolate; anthers broadly elliptic, c. 0.8 mm long, minutely apiculate. Disc prominent, dark purple, continuous with base of ovary, c. 0.3 mm high. Ovary hemispherical, 1–2 mm high, silvery-lepidote; style terete, c. 0.5 mm high, glabrous; stigma hemispherical, slightly wider than style. Cocci 3 mm high, smooth; apex rounded with divaricate apiculum.
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