Tree to 30 m high; branchlets glabrous; lenticels prominent; coppice shoots spinose. Leaves chartaceous, glabrous or nearly so, lanceolate to rhombic-ovate or elliptic, acuminate to obtuse; lamina mostly 5–8 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, entire, remotely crenate or dentate; base cuneate or shortly decurrent; secondary veins 4–6 pairs; petiole 4–10 mm long. Racemes few-to many-flowered, glabrous or puberulous, 2–4 cm long. Pedicels 2–4 mm long. Sepals 4, ovate, c. 1.3 mm long, ciliolate. Petals similar to sepals but slightly narrower and longer. Disc glands 12–16, truncate. Stamens 50–60; filaments glabrous, 3–4 mm long. Ovary ovoid; style 2–3 mm long; stigma slightly 3-lobed, glabrous. Fruit obovoid-globose, 12 mm long, dark red turning black. Seeds few, angular, embedded in pulp.
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