Shrub or tree, up to 21 m, 30 cm ø; no buttresses. Leaves unifoliolate, 4.5-11 by 1¾-4 ¾ cm (on sterile twigs larger, up to 13½ by 6½ cm), elliptic to oblong, acute to acuminate, base obtusely cu-neate to emarginate, glabrous; beneath whitish green, dull, subglaucous; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 10-27 by ½-1 mm, petiolule 3-6 by ¾-1.5 mm. Panicles 1-2 together, erect, 1½-13 cm, rusty-puberulous; branches up to 10 mm, usually many-flowered, rather closely placed. Pedicels pectinately clustered, lower joint 2-6 mm, upper ¼-½ mm. Calyx rusty-puberulous outside, gla-brescent in fruit except for margins and base, 2-3 mm high, crimson when dry. Sepals 1¾-3 by ¾-1 ¼ mm, ovate to oblong. Petals red, darker at apex, 3¾-6 by 1-2 mm, oblong to lanceolate, sometimes obovate. Filaments in SF 2-2¾ and 2½-3 ⅔ mm, in LF 1¼-1½ and 1½-1¾ mm. Pistil in SF 1-1½ mm, in LF 3¼-3½ mm, appressed rusty-strigose; styles in SF ½-¾ mm, in LF 2½-3 mm; ovary ½-1 by ½-⅔ mm, ellipsoid. Fruit bright pink to dark red, 8-12 by 5-11 mm, subglobose to ellipsoid with obtuse to rounded apex, glabrescent; rimae open and conspicuous, inside lighter and papillose. Seeds 6 by 3½ mm; testa shiny, smooth; cotyledons 5 by 2½ mm, elliptic, radicle 1 mm.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 21 m tall. The trunk is 30 cm across. It does not have buttresses. The bark is fairly smooth. The leaves are single and 5-11 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are papery. They are dull grey-green underneath. The base is rounded or wedge shaped and there is a short tip. The flowers are in clusters of 1-2 clusters together made up of many flowers. The clusters are 2-13 cm long. They have a rusty coloured covering. The fruit are round or oval and red. There are 2-3 seeds.
Rare to very rare in undisturbed forest, heath forest on well-drained humus podsols, ground-water podsols, peaty ‘Hochmoors’ and sand covered clay on terraces and sand stone. Occasionally in secondary forest (BRÜNIG).
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A tropical plant. It grows on mountain ridges and mossy forests up to 2,700 m above sea level.
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