Small tree, up to 6 m, 6 cm dbh. Twigs dull, bearing 1 or 2 (or 3) leaves per shoot. Axillary buds 2 (or 3?), smaller than 1 mm. Petiole 3.5-5 mm. Leaf-blade 7-16 by 2-5 cm, base rounded-truncate to-cordate; above dark greyish green, very dull, secondary nerves slightly sunken, venation obscured; beneath olive-greenish, dull, secondary nerves 3 or 4 pairs, the basal nerves long, reaching often beyond the middle of the leaf, or forming an intramarginal nerve, venation not distinct; glands 6-12, scattered, 0.2-0.3 mm diam. Inflorescences unbranched, ± as long as the leaves; axes grooved, not flattened, nearly glabrous, light brown; flowers often with 2 or 3 together; bracts relatively long-persistent. Pedicel 3.5-4.5 mm, sparsely very shortly appressedly hairy. Sepals sometimes apically with tiny glandular spots; outer ones 2 by 2.1 mm; inner ones 2.3 by 2.3 mm. Petals white, the upper ones with a yellow spot, when dry yellowish orange, the longest one 7-8 mm; carina nearly glabrous outside; other petals glabrous. Stamens: filaments connate over 0.7-1 mm, very shortly hairy above base, further glabrous; anthers probably c. 0.7 mm long. Ovary very shortly stipi-tate, more or less appressedly hairy; ovules 4. Fruit (immature) smooth, slightly shiny, yellowish green, sparsely appressedly hairy, glabrescent; pericarp very thin.
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