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Shrub or small tree, 2-4(7) m in height, evergreen, highly branched, with rounded crown. Trunk smooth, greyish and young branches glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Leaves alternate on the branches of the current year but grouped in brachyblasts on older parts of the plant, rigid, oblanceolate to obovate, 2.5-6 \u00d7 0.7-2 cm, cuneate at the base, acute or retuse, rounded and mucronate, light green and glabrous, with mid and lateral veins often prominent on the upper side. Petiole 3-5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, corymbiform, with 3-10 flowers, rachis glabrous or puberulous 3-6 cm. Bracts 4-5 mm long, ciliate-pubescent. Flowers actinomorphic, minute, up to 0.5 cm, with 4-8 mm pedicels. Sepals 4, ovate-elliptic, 4-5 \u00d7 1.5-2 mm. Petals 0. Stamens 5-9, filaments 2-4 mm and anthers 1 mm long. Gynophore glabrous, 1-2 mm. Ovary ovoid, 1-1.7 mm long, flattened at the top; stigma subsessile. 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