Shrub up to 3 m. Young branchlets sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, sometimes glabrous. Leaves papery, glabrous, olivaceous, shining, lanceolate rarely elliptic-lanceolate, (5—)9¼-13 by (1.5-)3.5-4.5 cm. base obtuse occasionally shallow-cordate or attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 9-14 pairs, slightly curved and ascending, elevated beneath, visible or obscure above, veins reticulate, slightly elevated beneath, obscure above; petiole 3-4 mm. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, umbelliform, sometimes occurring on short, reduced branchlets associated with reduced leaves (2-3 cm long) and resembling a leafy panicle, (2-)5-6 (-lO)-flowered; peduncle up to 3 cm, densely ap-pressed-hirtellous. Flowers greenish-yellow, (15-)18-22 mm long, densely puberulous outside. Floral tube cylindric. Calyx lobes narrow-oblong, 2-3.5 mm long. Stamens usually sessile rarely some of them on short filaments, 1.5-1 mm long. Disk 2 free, oblong scales. Ovary slightly obovoid, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy at the apex; style distinct, 0.5-1 mm long; stigma oblong, ⅓-1/2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, c. 8 by 6 mm.
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