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Leaves petiolate; lamina 3.5–11.5 (13.5) x 1.6–5.7 cm., oblong to elliptic or rarely lanceolate, obtuse or rarely subacute to rounded or emarginate at the apex, broadly cuneate to truncate or cordate at the base, membranous, dull greyish-or ± glossy green and ± sparsely appressed-pubescent (rarely glabrous) above, dull pale green or greyish and more densely appressed-pubescent below, with reticulate venation varying in density and prominence; petiole 3–10 (17) mm. long, red-or yellow-brown, pubescent or glabrous.
Petals greenish-white to yellow, the outer ones 1.8–3 cm. long, narrowly linear, concave and c. 3 mm. wide at the base, golden-sericeo-pubescent outside, puberulous within except at the base, the inner ones somewhat shorter and slightly narrower, shortly unguiculate, puberulous on both sides except at the base.
Fruit on a pedicel 4–7 mm. long; fruiting carpels 1–8, 1–3 x 0.8–1.1 cm., 1–5-seeded, obovoid or cylindric, ± curved, rounded at the apex, constricted between the seeds when dry, glabrous, finely rugose, red, reticulate-striate or not, with stipes 3–4 mm. long.
Flowers solitary or 2–3-fasciculate (rarely shortly pedunculate), eventually reflexed; pedicels absent or up to 7 mm. long, pubescent and ± stout; bracteoles 2, broadly ovate, near the flower, deciduous.
Carpels 7–14, 3 mm. long; ovary ovoid-cylindric or flattened, appressed-pilose; style twice as long as the ovary, cylindric, pilose.
Sepals 1.5–3 mm. long, triangular-ovate, obtuse or apiculate, pubescent and green outside, glabrous and reddish within.
Seeds c. 1.2 cm. long, ellipsoid or ± flattened, yellow-brown, oblique, biseriate; aril inconspicuous.
Branches reddish-brown, ± densely yellowish-fawn-pubescent at first, eventually glabrous.
Shrub or small tree (1) 2–6 (9) m. high, erect or ± spreading, much branched.
Stamens 1 mm. long, linear, with connective prolongation capitate, rugulose.
