Shrub or small tree 2–9 m high; bark brownish. Leaves: petiole (0.5–) 1–4 mm long; lamina obovate to oblanceolate or ± narrowly elliptic, rarely tapering abruptly to an acuminate apex, 7–12.2 cm long, 2–3.6 cm wide [4–15.8 (–18) cm long, 1.2–4.2 (–5.6) cm wide, fide Jackes (2005: 102)], margin irregularly serrulate to crenulate, glands small, scattered, pellucid, globular and lineate, rarely less than 8 per areole. Inflorescence 4–20 cm long, 4–12 cm wide, bud scales usually prominent, branches reddish; pedicels 2–10 mm long, often curving and lengthening after anthesis, glands pellucid. Flowers usually 2.5–3 mm long, glands pellucid; calyx 1–1.5 mm long; corolla creamy-green to white, rarely a pink tinge, lobes often slightly reflexed. Stamens: filaments 0.5–1 mm long, anthers 1.5–2 mm long, awl-shaped, some uniseriate hairs present on adaxial surface; ovary globular 0.7–1 mm long, style 2–3 mm long, pellucid glands present; ovules 4 or 5. Fruit globular to depressed globular, 5–8 mm long, 6–8 mm wide, red; style persistent.
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