Shrub or small tree, up to 8 m in height, deciduous, hermaphrodite, with large leaves, but spaced; therefore its foliage is sparse. Stems erect, with long and flexuous branches. Trunk and older branches with brown-grey to reddish-brown bark, fissured in older specimens. Branchlets striated, subtetragonal or cylindrical, glabrous, light green. Leaves large (6-15 \u00d7 3.5-10 cm), broadly oblong-elliptic, acuminate or with a rounded apex ending in a small tip, with a finely and irregularly serrulate margin, glabrous, green on both sides, opposite, with petiole 5-11 mm. Inflorescences in axillary cymes, with long peduncle (5-10 cm) and 5-10 pentamerous flowers (5-8 mm diameter), greenish-yellow, with pedicel 10-15 mm. Calyx with lobes 1-1.5 mm, suborbicular and subacute. Corolla with petals 1.7-4 mm, ovate-triangular, opened in star-shape. Stamens 5, very short, on a green 5-lobed nectariferous disc. Fruit a fleshy capsule, reddish-pink, 7-10 \u00d7 15-20 mm, hanging on a long peduncle, with 5 depressed locules arranged radially, dehiscent into 5 valves. Seeds ovoid, 5-6.5 mm, smooth, brown, with an orange aryl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12135","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n