Shrubs or small trees, 3-5 m tall. Petiole 0.5-1.5 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 8-13 × 3.5-5.5 cm, papery to thinly leathery, lateral veins 5-7-paired, raised on both sides, base obtuse, margin densely serrulate, apex acuminate to long acuminate. Spikes usually nodding, 5-13 cm, sessile. Flowers yellow, ca. 6 mm, subsessile; bract triangular, ca. 2 mm; bracteoles broadly ovate, apex acute. Sepals broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm, apex obtuse. Petals obovate, ca. 5 × 3.5 mm. Ovary ovoid-oblong, hairy; style ca. 1.5 mm. Fruit subglobose, 7-8 cm in diam., ± glabrous. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Aug.
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