Tree to 10 m high. Shoots puberulous; branchlets puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3–4.5 mm long; lamina ovate or elliptic, 4–9 cm long, 1.4–3.8 cm wide, acute or obtuse at base, acute at apex, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-puberulous below; secondary veins 9–12 pairs. Flowers mostly solitary; peduncle 1 mm long; pedicel 2–2.5 mm long; bracts depressed-ovate, pubescent. Sepals depressed-ovate, 2 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, pubescent. Petals yellowish green. Outer petals triangular or ovate, incurved at base, 7.5–8.5 mm long, 4.5–5 mm wide. Inner petals elliptic with a concave or saccate base, 3.2 mm long, 2.2 mm wide. Stamens 45–55, 0.6 mm long, 0.3 mm wide; connective rounded. Carpels 6; ovary 0.5 mm long; ovule 1; style and stigma incurved, 0.5–0.6 mm long. Apocarps usually 2–5, obliquely obovoid, 2-2.4 cm long, 1.4–1.8 cm wide, glabrous, red inside and out. Seed 1, ellipsoidal, smooth, black, attached near base of carpel; aril white.
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