Shrub or small tree up to 3.5 m by 2.5 cm. Branchlets puberulous, light brown. Branches reddish-brown and usually transversally fissured. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, rarely chartaceous, in dry condition both surfaces olivaceous-brown to brownish, glabrous and shining, elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, rarely lanceolate, 5—15 by 2.5-5 cm; base obtuse to cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 12-15 pairs, elevated and prominent beneath, slightly elevated or plane above, obliquely spreading towards the margin and united with the intramarginal vein; veins anastomosing, almost as prominent as the nerves; petiole 2-3 mm, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal or/and in the leaf axils at the terminal node, distinctly peduncled; peduncles stout, brownish-pubescent, sometimes angular or flattened and gradually thickening towards the top, usually bent slightly downward, sometimes with 1 or 2 bracts below the 6 to 8 apical flowers. Flowers yellowish, yellowish-green or green, subsessile. Floral tube 10-12 mm long, sparsely puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Calyx lobes 4, ovate-oblong, 1½-3 mm long, obtuse. Two series of stamens close to each other, on very short filaments; anthers oblong, obtuse, 1.5 mm long. Disk 2 free, oblong, 2-lobed scales. Ovary ellipsoid or slightly obovoid-oblong, 3 mm long, hairy at the top; style distinct, filiform, c. 1 mm; stigma globose, papillose. Fruits red, broadly ellipsoid, 12 by 9 mm.
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