| Description : | Trees or shrubs; bark gray. Branchlets puberulent. Stipules subulate, minutely hairy, caducous; leaf blade lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, minutely pilose, becoming glabrous, base rounded or obtuse, apex obtusely acuminate. Inflorescence racemose, or rarely paniculate, axillary. Pedicel slender. Calyx red, campanulate, divided nearly to base. Male flowers: androgynophore curved, glabrous. Female flowers: ovary globose, densely puberulent. Follicle oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4-8-seeded, abaxially densely red hirsute, apex beaked. Seeds black, ovoid. |
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