Trees, to 6 m tall. Branchlets gray when dry, compressed, shallowly grooved; old branches reddish brown. Petiole 7-10(-15) mm; leaf blade elliptic, 9-12 × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially green when dry, adaxially with conspicuous glands, midvein impressed, secondary veins numerous, slender, dense, and parallel, reticulate veins evident between secondary veins, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base cuneate, apex slightly acute to acuminate and with an obtuse acumen. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate cymes, 3-9 cm. Hypanthium broadly obconic, ca. 5 × 5 mm, base contracted. Calyx lobes 1.5-2 × ca. 2 mm, apex rounded. Petals coherent. Stamens numerous, longer than petals; anthers ca. 0.8 mm. Style ca. 1 cm. Fruit purplish black, ellipsoid-ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. Fl. Sep-Nov, fr. Dec-Feb.
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