Shrub up to 2.5 m by 4 cm. Young branchlets slightly flattened at the nodes, densely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Branches terete, reddish-brown, glabrous; axillary buds densely covered with golden-coloured hairs. Leaves papery, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy on the lower surface and especially on the nerves and veins of young leaves, in dry state light-greenish, light-brown or greenish-brown to brownish and shining on the upper surface; pale-greenish, light-yellowish-green or light-brown and dull on the undersurface; elliptic, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, rarely broadly elliptic, 1.75-5.5(-8) by 0.75-3.5(-4) cm; base acute; apex acute to narrow-acute, very rarely obtuse; nerves 8-11 pairs, elevated below and slightly depressed above, obliquely spreading towards the margin and then curved upward; veins almost as distinct as the nerves, loosely reticulate beneath, obscure above; petiole c. 2 mm. Inflorescences umbelliform or spicate, 5-10-flowered, terminal and in the axils of the terminal node, so usually 3 inflorescences at the top of the branchlet, of which usually the middle one (sometimes also the lateral ones) is provided with a pair of bracts or reduced leaves; peduncle obscure to 3.5 cm, erect or slightly curved; pedicels c. 1 mm, articulated at the base. Flowers light-green or yellowish-green. Floral tube slightly pubescent outside, 9-12 mm long. Calyx lobes oblong, or slightly ovate, fleshy, 2-3½ mm long, obtuse. Disk 2, rarely 3 free, linear scales. Stamens filamentous; anther c. 1 mm long, obtuse, the space between the anthers of upper and lower series 1-1½ mm. Ovary ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm long, pilose at the top, sometimes glabrescent; style obscure to 1 mm long; stigma globose, c. 0.25 mm in diam. Fruits red, oblong, rounded.
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