Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall. Bark grey, smooth; inner bark pale brown. Sapwood pale brown. Branchlets lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole 2−15 mm long; blade subcoriaceous, mostly drying yellowish, narrowly elliptic, 4−19 by 1−6 cm, 2.5−6.3 times as long as wide, base cuneate, apex acuminate, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 6−9 pairs, curved ascending, often somewhat obscure above, tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence few-flowered, 3−15 cm long, delicate with a long thin peduncle to 6 cm long, glabrous, not densely lenticellate; pedicels 4−6 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1−1.2 by 0.8−1 mm, 1.1-1.2 times as long as wide, apex rounded, glabrous, ciliate, without colleters inside. Corolla pale yellow to white, in mature bud 6−7 mm long with small, globose head which is c. 0.25 of bud length, apex rounded; tube 4.5−5.2 mm long; lobes obliquely elliptic, 3.5−5 by 0.9−1.4 mm glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted in the upper 2/3 of corolla tube; anthers c. 1.2 by 0.4 mm. Ovaries glabrous, c. 1.2 mm long; style c. 0.1 mm long; style head c. 0.7 mm long. Fruit of paired follicles, orange, obliquely obovoid, 15−32 by 8−18 mm, with or without ridges, 1-or 2-(or 3-)seeded.
Home