Treelet, up to 9 m, 10 cm ø. Twigs velvety, glabrescent. Leaves unifoliolate, 7½-2 3½ by 3½-10 ¼ cm elliptic to oblong, abruptly acuminate to cuspidate, base obtuse to truncate, above glabrous, beneath rusty-pubescent to-velvety, sometimes subglaucous; nerves 6-11 pairs; petiole 5-24 by 1½-3 mm, petiolule 3-7 by 1½-3 mm. Panicles 1-2 together, 7-70 cm, erect to pendulous, rusty-velvety, compact to elongated. Branches very short to elongated, often distant, pectinately branched, many-flowered, patent to recurved, up to 30 mm long, rusty-velvety. Lower joint of pedicel 4-8 mm, upper ½-1 mm. Calyx (2¼-)3-3½ mm high, rusty-puberulous outside. Sepals suborbicular to obovate, rounded to retuse, 2¼-3 by 1⅔-3 mm. Petals crimson, apically darker, (4¼-)6-8 by (1-)1½-1¾ mm, obovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse to rounded. Filaments in SF 2½ and 3-3¼ mm, in LF 1½-2 and 2-2½ mm. Pistil densely rusty-strigose, in SF 1¾-2, in LF 3-4 mm; styles red, in SF ⅓-¾ mm. in LF 2-2½ mm long; ovary 1-1½ by 1 mm, subglobose. Fruit 8-15 by 6-15 mm, subglobose to oblong, rounded, glabrescent, bright red; rimae conspicuous, lighter and/or papillose inside. Seed 1-2 per fruit, 5¼-7 by 3¼-4½ mm; testa transversely rugose. Mature embryo not seen.
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