Trees or shrubs; bark gray. Branchlets puberulent. Stipules subulate, minutely hairy, caducous; petiole 2.5-3.5 cm, both ends pulvinate; leaf blade lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 10-23 × 2.5-7.5 cm, minutely pilose, becoming glabrous, lateral veins 9-10 on each side of midrib, slightly connected near margin, base rounded or obtuse, apex obtusely acuminate. Inflorescence racemose, or rarely paniculate, axillary, 5-7 cm, much shorter than leaves, laxly few-flowered, stellate pilose. Pedicel slender, 5-8 mm. Calyx red, campanulate, divided nearly to base, ca. 7 mm, abaxially sparsely pu-berulent, lobes oblong-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, much longer than calyx tube, spreading outward. Male flowers: androgynophore curved, glabrous. Female flowers: ovary globose, densely puberulent. Follicle oblong or oblong-lanceolate, ca. 7 cm, 4-8-seeded, abaxially densely red hirsute, apex beaked. Seeds black, ovoid.
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A small or medium sized tree. The bark is dark brown and rough. The flowers are red. The fruit follicles or pods are pink and thinly rough. The seeds are black and have beaks. The seed are oval.
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