Shrubs ca. 3 m tall; branchlets greenish, subangular, glabrous. Petiole 0.5-2 mm; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-oblong, 3.5-9 × 2-3.5 cm, papery, glabrous, base cuneate to broadly so, margin entire, slightly revolute, apex rounded, rarely obtuse; lateral veins 5-7. Inflorescences sessile glomerules, slightly hairy; flowers white, ca. 5-6 mm in diam. Male flowers: sepals 5, orbicular; stamens 20-30, free; disk annular. Female flowers: sepals 5 or 6, narrower than in male; disk cupular or annular; ovary 3-locular; styles 3; stigmas bifid, revolute. Capsules globose, 6-8 mm, slightly fleshy, glabrous, often 1-seeded. Seed surface often foveolate. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.
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