Small tree, up to 9 m, 12 cm dbh. Axillary buds oblong, 3-6 mm long, basally strongly thickened, obtuse, probably glabrous; secondary and adventitious buds often present, numerous. Petiole (8-)10.5-14 mm, smooth. Leaf-blade 13-32 by 5-10.5 cm, base attenuate to cordate, apex acutish; above dark green, often slightly bullate between the secondary nerves, midrib prominent, often with a groove from halfway down; beneath glaucous-papillose, secondary nerves 11-14 pairs, forming a rather distinct complete intramarginal nerve; glands numerous, smaller than 0.1 mm diam. Inflorescences 1.5-6 cm long, also arising from adventitious buds on older nodes, unbranched; axes minutely appressedly hairy (hairs 0.1 mm long). Pedicel 5-6 mm, minutely appressedly hairy (hairs 0.1 mm long). Sepals: outer sepals 2 by 2 mm; inner sepals 3.2 by 2.7 mm. Petals subglabrous, brownish orange when dry, the longest c. 15 mm. Stamens: filaments c. 1.5 mm connate; anthers 2 mm long, ciliate along slits. Ovary minutely appressedly hairy (hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long); style glabrous in apical part; ovules 9-11. Fruit globular, c. 1.5 cm diam., minutely appressedly hairy; pericarp thin, brittle; pedicel up to 7 mm.
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