Shrubs to trees. Branchlets grayish white when dry, 4-angled. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade narrowly oblong to elliptic, 3-6(-9) × 1-2(-3) cm, leathery, both surfaces grayish green when dry, adaxially not glossy, secondary veins numerous, ca. 1 mm apart, and nearly level with surface, intramarginal veins nearly at margin, base broadly cuneate, apex acute and usually with a cusp less than 1 cm. Inflorescences terminal or sometimes axillary, cymes, ca. 2 cm, 6-10-flowered. Flower buds clavate, ca. 1 cm, basal part narrow. Hypanthium clavate, 8-10 mm. Calyx lobes 4, shallowly wavy. Petals white or pink, connate into a calyptra. Stamens 3-4 mm. Style as long as stamens. Fruit red, long ellipsoid, ca. 12 × 6-8 mm, shallowly grooved when dry, 1-or 2-seeded. Fl. Aug-Nov, fr. Oct-Dec.
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