Slender tree, or shrub (Irwin 745); branchlets swollen at nodes, mostly alternate, greyish, sparsely lenticellate. Petiole slender, 2-4 mm long; blades coriaceous, brownish when dried, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 3.5-6 x 1.8-3 cm, margins entire, apex rounded or emarginate, base rounded or obtuse; primary vein flattened or impressed above but prominulous at base, secondary veins 6-8 per side, widely arcuately ascending, flattened or slightly impressed on both surfaces, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, on defoliate branchlets, fasciculate, 2-5-flowered; peduncle minute; pedicels slender, 3-4 mm long. Flowers ca. 10 mm diam.; sepals membranous, glandular-lineolate, broadly deltoid, obtuse, 1-1.5 x 2 mm, entire or erosulous; petals membranous or slightly fleshy, greenish white, glandular-pustulate or-lineolate, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 4-5.8 x 3.5-4 mm, entire and narrowly revolute at margins; disk 2.2-3 mm diam., ca. 0.5 mm high, inconspicuously flattened at the base; stamens spreading, filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers ca. 0.5 x 0.7 mm, dehiscent by oblique, apically, confluent clefts; ovary short conical, ovules 4 per locule, in superposed pairs, style ca. 1 mm long. Fruit unknown.
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