Shrub, or small tree to 8m, ? glabrous. Leaves alternate, + crowded, lan-ceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, entire or very finuely undulate, acute or acuminate, the bases obtuse, to 23 cm long and 10 cm wide, sparsely strigose on upper sur-face; petioles to ca 4 cm long. Inflorescences cymose, the branches elongate, ca 12(-30) cm long at maturity. Flowers sessile; calyx of 5 free sepals, subulate to lanceolate, sparsely strigose, ca 1.2-2(-3) mm long; corolla yellow to green, sparsely strigose, the tube ca 4-5 mm long, the lobes ca 1 mm long; stamens 5, borne ca halfway up the corolla tube, sessile, the anthers ca 1 mm long; ovary globose, the style ca 1 mm long, the stigma conical. Fruit globose, the exocarp + fleshy, ca 4-5 mm in diameter, separating into 4 nutlets at maturity.
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