Shrubs or trees, 3-8 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets and terminal buds densely spreading yellowish brown or ferruginous villous. Petiole 8-10 mm, densely hirsute; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 8-13 × 2.5-4.5 cm, leathery, abaxially yellowish green and yellowish brown to ferruginous hirsute with trichomes projecting beyond margin, adaxially dark green and glabrous, secondary veins 10-12 on each side of midvein and conspicuous on both surfaces, base cuneate to rarely rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flowers axillary, 2 or 3 in a cluster, rarely solitary. Pedicel 0.6-1.5 cm, often recurved, densely hirsute; bracteoles caducous. Sepals broadly ovate, 5-14 mm, outside densely ferruginous hirtellous, apex acute. Petals white, oblong to ovate-oblong, 8-15 × 4-6 mm, outside hirtellous along median portion, apex rounded. Stamens 25-30, 5-9 mm; filaments glabrous; anthers linear, 2-4.5 mm, with filiform trichomes, connective exserted. Ovary ovoid, densely hirsute, 3-loculed with many ovules per locule; style ca. 8 mm, completely united, densely hirsute on basal 2/3 or entire length. Fruit black when mature, globose, 0.8-1.3 cm in diam., densely hirsute. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-8 m tall. The leaves are oblong and 8-13 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. They are leathery. The flowers are in groups of 2 or 3 in the axils of leaves. The fruit are round and black when ripe. They can be 1.3 cm across. They are hairy.
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