Gaudium brevipes

Shrub to 4 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips, on larger stems fibrous, persistent. Young stems with a groove or a narrow flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 6–25 mm long, 2–4.5 mm wide, flat, finally glabrous (rarely retaining some appressed silky hairs); apex obtuse to acute or shortly acuminate, flat. Flowers 9–11 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 2 mm long, silky; pedicel 1.5–7 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, silky on outer surface, persisting (spreading) on fruit; petals 3–4 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular (rarely 4- or 6-locular), apex shortly silky all over. Fruit deciduous, broadly hemispherical, 3–4 mm diam., surface silky to sparsely silky; seeds c. 1.5 mm long, often with loose cells along margins, with a reticulate surface pattern. Flowers Oct.–Dec.