Tree. Twigs velvety rusty-pubescent, later patchily glabrescent and dark. Leaves shiny golden pubescent when young, upper surface soon glabrous or with a few appressed, pale hairs at the basis and along the midrib, beneath densely ferrugineous-pubescent, not glaucous, (3½-)5-11¼ by (1-)2-3½ cm, oblong to oblanceolate, acute to caudate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margins usually paler; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 4-6½ by ½-1 mm, petiolule 2-4 by ¾-1½ mm, rusty-velvety, glabrescent. Panicles 1-2 together, short, slender, up to 7½ cm, velvety; branches distant, ½-2 mm. Pedicels with unequal lower joint, one per cyme elongated, 3-4 mm, others c. 1 mm; upper joint ½-1 mm. Calyx 2-3¾ mm high, rusty-puberulous outside. Sepals 1¾-3½ by ½-1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Petals red, 4-6 by 1½-2 mm, obovate-elliptic to-lanceolate, rounded to obtuse. Filaments in LF 1 and 1½ mm. Pistil in LF 3-3½ mm, appressed-strigose; styles in LF 2-2½ mm; ovary 1 by 1 mm, sub-globose. Fruit 7-14 by 6-12 mm, ovoid to sub-globose, rounded, somewhat shiny, reddish; rimae inconspicuous, not glandular or ligher inside. Seeds 7 by 4.5 mm; testa transversely rugose; cotyledons 5 by 3 mm, radicle 1 mm.
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