Shrub or tree, up to 15 m, 10 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, (5-)16-28 by 6-10 cm, oblong to oblanceolate, margins ± parallel, abruptly acuminate to cuspidate, base truncate to emarginate, subcoriaceous, above glabrous, beneath puberulous on the veins, sometimes subglaucous; nerves 6-13 pairs; petiole 5-12(-25) by 1½-3 mm, petiolule 3-9 by 1-3 mm. Panicles 1-4 together, slender, lax, 12-85 cm, pendulous, brown-pu-berulous; branches elongated, 6-25 (-50) mm, often flattened. Lower joint of pedicel up to 2 mm, upper ¼-1 mm. Calyx 1½-3 mm high, ferrugineous-puberulous outside. Sepals 1¼-2½ by 1-1¾ mm, obovate to ovate, rounded to obtuse. Petals dark red, 3¼-5 by 1-1¾ mm, obovate-oblong to-lanceolate, obtuse to emarginate, claw ¼-½ mm. Filaments in SF 1-2 and 1¾-3 mm, in LF ¾-1¼ mm and 1½-1¾ mm. Pistil appressed-strigose, in LF 2-3 mm, in SF 1¼-1¾ mm; styles in SF ¼-⅔ mm, in LF 1-2 mm; ovary ⅔-1 by ½-¾ mm, subglobose to ellipsoid. Fruit 6-11 by 5-8 mm, subglobose, rounded, glabrescent, shiny, dark red; rimae inside lighter, papillose, conspicuous. Seeds up to 9 by 4 mm; testa transversely rugose; cotyledons 4 by 2½ mm, radicle 1 mm.
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A small tree. It grows to 15 m high. The trunk is 10 cm across. The leaves are thickly papery. They are oblong or sword shaped. They are 16-28 cm long by 6-10 cm wide. The edges of the leaves are parallel. They taper to the tip. The tip can be cup shaped. They are hairy in the veins underneath. There are 6-13 pairs of secondary veins. The leaf stalk is 3-9 mm long. The flowers occur in 1-4 hanging panicles. These are 12-85 cm long. The flowers have dark red petals. The fruit are rounded. They are shiny and dark red.
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