Shrub or tree, up to 19 m, bole up to 10 m, 30 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, 5-18½ by 1¾-7 cm, oblong to lanceolate, glabrous, acute to caudate, base obtuse to rounded, beneath not or slightly glaucous; nerves 4-11 pairs, often with reddish tinge; petiole 6-20 by 1-2 mm, petiolule 2-4 by 1-2 mm. Panicles 1-2 together, elongated, lax, pendulous, rusty-puberulous, 7-38½ cm; branches elongated, slender, patent, ± monochasially branched, up to 8 (-21) mm. Pedicels with unequal lower joint, usually one per cyme elongated to 5 mm, others up to 3 mm; upper joint ¼-1 mm. Calyx 2-3 mm high, rusty-puberulous, at least at base. Sepals 1⅔-2¾ by 1-1½ mm, ovate to lanceolate, acute to emarginate. Petals 3¾-5½ by 1-1½ mm, lanceolate, rounded to emarginate, pale red to red, occasionally white, apex usually darker, claw ⅔-1 mm. Filaments in SF 1⅔-2 and 2½-3 mm, in LF ½-⅔ and 1-1¼ mm long. Pistil in SF 1-1¼ mm, in LF 2¼-2.6 mm; styles in SF ½ mm, in LF 1¾-1.8 mm; appressed-puberulous; ovary ½-0.8 by ½-⅔ mm, sub-globose, densely appressed-strigose. Fruit 6-10 by 5-10 mm, subglobose, rounded, glabrescent, glaucous to glossy, pink to bright red; rimae not always conspicuous, lighter and papillose inside. Seeds up to 6% by 5 mm; testa smooth to ± transversely rugose; cotyledons elliptic, 4 ¾ by 1½ mm, radicle 1 by 2/5 mm.
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