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Shrub or tree up to 16 m high (27 mfide Sim, I.e.), unarmed or with simple, slender spines up to 4 cm long. Bark thin, grey or light brown, smooth when young, thick, grey, brown or yellowish, rough, fissured when old. Branches sometimes with axillary galls re­sembling fruits. Leaf-blade elliptic, ovate or rarely subrotund, acuminate at apex, cuneate to rounded at base, (2,5) 4—7 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, margin closely and regularly callose ser­rate or serrulate, sometimes with spinose teeth, midrib channelled above, prominent below, veins 4—6, Vi-angled, looping some distance from margin, subprominent, dark green and shiny above, paler below, coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 3-10 mm long, reddish. Flowers greenish white, in racemes up to 3 cm long, pedicels up to 6 mm long. Sepals 4 or 5, ovate to broadly ovate, apex acute or obtuse, 2-2,2 mm long, 1,5-2 mm wide. Petals when present, deltoid, 1,2 mm long, 1 mm wide. Disc annu­lar, with small, orange, fleshy lobes, 0,75 mm lo