Shrub to 3 m high, deciduous. Branchlets appressed pubescent. Leaves usually crowded; lamina ovate to obovate, 3.5–7.5 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm wide, 1.4–1.7 times as long as wide, attenuate at base, obtuse at apex, discolorous, shiny above, appressed puberulous, denser beneath; domatia absent; petiole c. 10 mm long. Spike open, c. same length as leaves. Flowers 4–7 mm long, 3–4 mm diam. Calyx appressed pubescent outside, glabrous inside; lobes triangular, c. 1.5 mm long and wide. Staminal filaments c. 3 mm long. Disc villous. Style glabrous. Mature fruit globular or ovoid, sometimes shortly beaked, 1–2 cm long, 1–1.5 cm diam., succulent, smooth, colour unknown; immature fruit compressed, laterally winged or ridged, shortly beaked.
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