Small tree to 15 m tall, to 15 cm dbh. Bark pale green to whitish, lenticellate. Branchlets pale grey-brown with a few large lenticels, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 4−25 mm long, glabrous to sparsely puberulent; blade coriaceous, elliptic to obovate, 3.7−25 by 1.7−9.5 cm, 1.3−4.1 times as long as wide, base cuneate, apex acuminate to apiculate, glabrous above, densely and minutely pubescent below, 7−14 pairs of secondary veins, almost perpendicular to the midrib, anastomosing into a looped intramarginal vein. Inflorescence lax, many-flowered, to 35 cm long, glabrous to pubescent; peduncles 4.5−16 cm long; pedicels 1−2.4 cm long. Calyx of a tube and erect lobes, 6−12 by 4-6 mm, 1.5-2 times as long as wide; calyx tube campanulate, noticeably wider than corolla tube, 3−9.5 mm long, 0.8-6 times as long as lobes, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; lobes elliptic to orbicular, 1.5-4 by 2-5 mm, 0.6-1.3 times as long as wide, apex rounded. Corolla white or cream; tube 7−11 mm long, 0.6-1.2 times as long as calyx, 0.3-0.5 times as long as lobes, cylindrical, somewhat wider around the anthers; lobes elliptic to obovate, 15−24 by 7−11 mm, 2-3 times as long as wide, apex rounded, spreading or recurved. Stamens inserted in the upper part of corolla tube, anther apex near corolla mouth; anthers 3.5 by 1.2-1.5 mm. Disk annular, crenate, 0.4−0.8 mm high. Ovaries 1−2 mm high, glabrous. Fruit subglobose, 3.5−5 cm diameter. Seeds with an orange-red aril, 9-10 by 6-6.5 by 3.5-5 mm.
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