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Shrub or small tree up to 6 m tall, usually smaller. Leaves mostly elliptic or obovate. Inflorescence a 5-12-flowered, bracteate fascicle; bracts up to 5 mm long, subulate. Petals greenish white turning yellow with age. Staminal tube white, 10-15 mm long. Capsule 7 x 15 mm, 10-valved, depressed-globose, shallowly sulcate, glabrous, leathery or thinly woody. Seeds black, 5 x 3 mm, with a small orange or red aril completely concealed except for a horn-like extension which protrudes beyond the apex of the seed.
A deciduous shrub or tree. It grows 2-4 m high. It can be 10 m high. The bark is grey. The leaves are large and oval. They are 16 cm long by 10 cm wide. Underneath it is covered with hairs. The base tapers into the leaf stalk. The flowers are greenish-white but turn yellow with age. Petals are 2.2 cm long by 0.3 cm wide. They occur in dense clusters along the younger branches. The fruit is almost round. It is a thinly wooded capsule. It is 5-10 mm across. It splits to release blackish seeds.
Staminal tube 10–15 mm. long, distally expanded, bearded at the throat with long hairs arising from the filaments, otherwise glabrous inside; appendages regularly 2-lobed, about 1·5 mm. long, alternating with the anthers, fused in lower half to form a frill continuing staminal tube beyond the insertion of filaments, glabrous outside or rarely with a few marginal cilia.
Inflorescence a 5–12-flowered almost sessile fascicle, usually borne in the axils of fallen leaves, rarely terminating short shoots of very slow growth, exceptionally in the leaf-axils; bracts up to 5 mm. long, subulate; pedicels 5–10 mm. long.
Leaf-lamina up to 16 × 10 cm., elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, rarely lanceolate, lower surface usually densely pubescent, rarely glabrous, apex rounded or emarginate, very rarely apiculate, base cuneate; petiole up to 1·5 cm. long.
Shrub or small tree up to 10 m. tall, occasionally flowering as a shrublet; first-year branchlets fulvous-tomentellous, second-year pale brown or greyish-white, stout, older branchlets often with a thick corky bark.
Shrub or small tree, up to 6 Tn high. Branchlets of flowering specimens stout, usually more than 4 mm in diameter. Calyx cup-shaped. Petals up to 22 mm long. Staminal tube bearded at throat. Flowers greenish white.
Capsule 7 × 15 mm., depressed-globose, shallowly sulcate, leathery, glabrous; aril covering about half of the seed.
Ovary 10-locular, glabrous; style 2–2·5 cm. long, glabrous or pilose at base, style-head ovoid-cylindric.
Petals 15–22 × 3 mm., linear, minutely puberulous towards the apex outside, otherwise glabrous.
Flowers greenish-white, turning yellow with age, usually appearing before the leaves.
Calyx up to 3 mm. long, with indistinct teeth, puberulous.
