Tree, up to 25 m, 30 cm dbh. Twigs forming very short shoots bearing 2 or 3 leaves, the young ones very slender, c. 0.5 mm diam. Axillary buds 2, 0.7-1.2 mm long. Petiole 2-2.5 mm. Leaf-blade 1.6-5(-6) by 0.5-1.6(-1.9) cm, base rounded to cuneate; above shiny, yellowish or greenish brown, midrib flat or slightly prominent, nervation finely prominent to obscure; beneath glaucous-papillose, yellowish to reddish brown, secondary nerves 1-3 pairs, rather indistinct, forming an indistinct intramarginal nerve, venation rather indistinct; glands rather numerous, scattered, very small though relatively distinct, up to 0.1 mm diam. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils or twigs terminating in a 1-3-flowered inflorescence; this unbranched, shorter than to ± as long as the leaves, up to c. 0.5 mm diam., up to 3.5 cm long, glabrous. Pedicel 10-11 mm, glabrous. Sepals purplish, (sub)glabrous outside, outer ones c. 2 by 1.6 mm, inner ones 3-3.4 by 1.8-2.3 mm. Petals light orange, when dry orange brown, very sparsely hairy at base and at very apex, further glabrous, the longest one 10-11 mm. Stamens: filaments widened and slightly thickened above their base and there densely rather shortly patently hairy, further glabrous; anthers 0.35-0.4 mm long, with few short hairs at base. Ovary c. 1 mm stipitate, appressedly hairy; style rather sparsely appressedly hairy in lower half, further glabrous; ovules 4. Fruit very shortly stipitate, globular, up to 1.1 cm diam., dull, light brown, very sparsely shortly appressedly hairy; pericarp rather thin; pedicel slender, 6.5-10 mm, completely glabrous.
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