Shrub or small tree, up to 9 m, 8 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, (6-)11½-28 by (2¼-)4-9 cm, pergamentacebus to subcoriaceous, glabrous, oblong to lanceolate, margins ± parallel, contractedly acute to cuspidate, base broadly truncate to emarginate, not glaucous; nerves 8-13 pairs, branching off with wide angle (lower ± 65-90°), basals usually recurved; petiole 4-11½ by 1½-3 mm, petiolule 3-8 by 2-3 mm, glabrous. Panicles subterminal or axillary, 1-few together, ± erect, glabrous, stout, 4-19 cm; branches reduced, wartlike, up to 2½ mm. Flowers in few-flowered fascicles. Lower joint of pedicel ± absent, upper 1-3 by ¾ mm. Calyx 1½-2 mm high, glabrous outside except the ciliate margin. Sepals 1¼-1½ by 1¼-1½ mm, broadly ovate, rounded to obtuse. Petals 6-8½ by 1¾-2⅓ mm, lanceolate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, rounded, red to crimson, tube lighter. Filaments in LF 1 and 1¾ mm, in SF 2½-3 and 3½-4mm. Pistil sparsely puberulous, in SF 2 mm, in LF 4 mm; styles in SF ¾-1 mm, in LF 2½-3 mm; ovary 1 by ⅔-¾ mm, subglobose, pubescence mainly apically. Fruit 8-16 by 5-10 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid, acute to acuminate, recurved, glabrous, red; rimae inconspicuous, in the upper half, neither lighter nor papillose inside. Seeds 10 by 4 mm; testa transversely rugose; cotyledons 7 ¼ by 3 mm; radicle c. 1 mm long, stout.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 9 m tall. The branches are up to 8 cm across. The leave are compound but with one leaflet. The fruit is an oval capsule. It is 1-1.5 cm long by 0.5-1 cm wide. It is red.
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