Shrub or tree, up to 35 m, 17 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, (3½-)6-13½ by 2-5 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, acute-cuneate, base cuneate to ± truncate, above with prominent, rather coarse venation, glabrous, subglaucous, sparsely puberulous; nerves 5-6 pairs; petiole 6-21 by ½-1 mm, petiolule 2-5 by ½-1¼ mm, sparsely strigose. Panicles 1-2 together, 1-7 cm, erect, slender, rusty-puberulous; branches up to 2(-7) mm, distant. Pedicels few, close together with equal upper and lower joints, up to 1½ mm. Calyx 2-2¼ mm high, rusty-puberulous outside, reddish-brown when dry. Sepals 1½-2 by 1-1 ⅓ mm, ovate to rectangular, acute to truncate. Petals red, 4-4 ¼ by 1-1½ mm, lanceolate, rounded to retuse. Filaments in SF 1-2 and 2-2¼ mm, in LF ¾ and 1 mm. Pistil appressed-strigose, in SF 1 mm, in LF 2½ mm; styles in SF ¼ mm, in LF 2 mm; ovary ½-¾ by ½-¾ mm, subglo-bose to ellipsoid. Fruit 8-13 by 6-9 mm, ellipsoid rounded to acutish, glabrescent, red; rimae open from the top to below the middle, ± conspicuous, lighter and papillose inside. Seeds 4-5 by 3 mm; testa slightly transversely rugose to ± smooth; cotyledons 3 by 2¾ mm, radicle 1 mm.
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