Shrub or small tree 2-6 m tall. Branchlets terete, dark ferruginous-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves with petiole 8-20 mm long; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 5-15 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, ±glossy above, duller beneath, coriaceous to very coriaceous, usually not sub-bullate, ferruginous-pubescent when young, completely glabrous at maturity; margins entire. Conflorescence 6-8 cm long; involucral bracts ovate; adaxial surface with a ±median band of appressed, ferruginous hairs; abaxial surface glabrous. Pedicels 5-6 mm long. Tepals c. 15 mm long. Hypogynous glands 2. Fruit subglobose, 15-20 mm diam., purplish, glabrescent. Seeds to c. 15 mm diam.
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