Shrub or small to medium-sized tree. Twigs often stout, glabrous. Leaves glabrous, mostly faintly acuminate with cuneate or rounded base and undulate to crenate margin, elliptic, 5-15 by 2-2¾ cm; nerves 9-14 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein 2-4 mm from the margin; petiole stout, 3-10 mm. Flowers in a subterminal, rarely terminal, raceme or panicle of racemes; axis pubescent to glabrous. Bracts and bracteoles glabrous, soon caducous, c. 8 and c. 5 mm long respectively. Pedicel at most 3 mm. Calyx glabrous, 3-5 mm, sometimes becoming symmetric by tearing; lobes 2-3 mm, becoming longer by tearing apart. Corolla 8-10 mm. Stamens c. 100 or more. Disk 5-glandular, included the conical style base glabrous or soft hairy. Ovary glabrous, 1½-2 mm high; style glabrous, c. 5 mm. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 15 by 8 mm; stone smooth or with faint ridges, 1-celled. Seeds not seen, but probably with straight embryo.
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