Shrub or tree, up to 23 m high, 45 cm ø. Branches glabrous or densely ferrugineous-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves unifoliolate, (5-) 8-23 by (2-)3-8½ cm, oblong to lanceolate, elliptic to obovate, acuminate to caudate, base broadly cuneate to truncate, above sparsely silky pubescent, mainly at base and on the midrib, beneath sometimes subglaucous, glabrous or pale to ferrugineous pubescent; nerves 5-11 pairs, basals sometimes at 90°; petiole 5-25 by 1-3½ mm, petiolule 3-7 by 1-3 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Panicles 1-3 together, up to 30 cm, erect, pendent in fruit, glabrous, or finely pale puberulous, or ferrugineous velvety; branches patent to recurved in fruit, up to 14 mm, sometimes once forked near the top, subtended by a bract, a petioloid, or a small leaf. Lower and upper joints of pedicel subequal, ½-1 mm. Calyx 1¼-2 mm high, outside glabrous or very shortly pale puberulous or ferrugineous puberulous. Sepals 1¼-2 by 1-2 mm, broadly ovate to spathulate, obtuse to emarginate. Petals 4-7 by 1¼-2 mm, obovate-lanceolate, rounded to emarginate, whitish to dark red. Filaments in SF 1-2¼ and 2-3½ mm, in LF ½-1 and 1-1½ mm. Pistil glabrous to appressed-strigose, in SF 1-1½ mm, in LF 3-4 mm long; styles in SF 0.5 mm, in LF 2-3 mm long; ovary ¾-1 by 0.5-⅔ mm, ellipsoid. Fruit 6-13 by 4-9 mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, recurved, rounded to acuminate, glabrescent; rimae inconspicuous, closed not lighter nor glandular inside. Seeds 5-9 by 3-4 mm; testa smooth to transversely rugose; cotyledons 4-5 by 2-2½ mm, 3-4 times as long as the radicle measuring 1-1½ by ⅓ mm.
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