Treelet 7-9 m, 20 cm Ø. Twigs hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5, sparsely long-pilose beneath, acuminate with cuneate base and glandular denticulate margin, obovate, 6½-11 by 2¼-5 cm; nerves 6-9 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein; petiole 8-10 mm. Flowers in a reduced axillary fascicle-like spike; axis glabrous, c. 3 mm long. Bracts and bracteoles persistent under the flower, 8-10 and c. 4 mm long respectively. Calyx divided into unequal narrowly triangular appressedly long-hairy 2-4 mm long lobes. Stamens 70 to more than 100. Disk pilose. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid to cylindrical, immature whitish, 10-12 by c. 5 mm; stone with shallow lengthwise grooves, cylindrical, a little swollen towards both ends, 3-celled but mostly only one cell fertile. Seed mostly 1, straight with straight embryo.
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