Shrub or tree, up to 30 m, 38 cm ø, bole occasionally buttressed and crooked. Leaves unifoliolate, 4-10 by 1½-3¼ (-7) cm, elliptic to oblong, rarely suborbicular, acuminate to cuspidate, base rounded to cuneate, glabrous, dark when dry, subglaucous beneath; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 6-31 by ½-¾ mm, petiolule 3 by ⅔-1 mm. Panicles 1-2 together, erect, 1-9 ½ cm, rusty-puberulous, ± dense; branches up to 4 mm long. Pedicels pectinately clustered, upper joint up to ⅓ mm, lower 1-2 mm. Calyx 1¾-2 mm high, outside rusty-puberulous, apically less so, reddish-brown when dry. Sepals 1½-2 by 1-1½ mm, ovate to rectangular, acute to emarginate. Petals deep red, 3-5 by ¾-1½ mm, lanceolate, emarginate. Filaments in LF 1-1¼ and 1¼-1½ mm, in SF 1½ and 2 mm. Pistil densely appressed rusty-strigose, in LF 3-3½, in SF 1 mm; styles in LF 2-2½ mm, in SF 0.5 mm long; ovary ½-1 by ½-⅔ mm, ellipsoid. Fruit up to 13 by 13 mm, pale to bright red, subglobose to ovoid, rounded to acute; rimae conspicuous, open, lighter and papillose inside. Seeds 7.5 by 3 mm; testa smooth; cotyledons 4 by 2¼ mm, radicle 1¼ by ⅓ mm.
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A shrub or tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is 40 cm across. There can be buttresses. The leaves are compound but with one leaflet. The fruit is a flattened round capsule. It is red and 1.5 cm across.
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