Shrubs or small trees, to 4 m tall, the twiglets slender, often puberulent, the nodes usually swollen, the leaf scars large. Leaves oblong or oblong rotund, 6-15 cm long, 2.3-5.0(-6.0) cm wide, rounded or tapering widely into an obtuse or deltoid apex, acuminate, the acumen 0.5-2.0 cm long, obtuse to cuneate at the base, the lateral veins 6-10, thickly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, smooth, gla-brous to sparsely golden-puberulent; petioles stiff, 0.5-1.0 cm long; stipules free?, triangular, to 3 mm long, acute, puberulent, usually deciduous. Inflorescences terminal, sessile or subsessile, the flowers of the female inflorescence ca. 5, oc-casionally solitary?, those of the male 7-10, radially disposed. Flowers (only male seen) ca. 1 cm long, the buds acute, the hypanthium ca. 1.5 mm long, the calycine teeth absent; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, to 8 mm long, to 2.5 mm wide, stiffly carnose, puberulent, the lobes 5, triangular, to 2.5 mm long; stamens 4(5?), narrowly oblong, ca. 3 mm long. Fruits subsessile or sessile, solitary, rotund or subrotund, occasionally obovate-rotund, to 2.5 cm long, slight-ly wider than long, drying black, minutely rugulose, glabrous, the persistent ca-lycine cup crateriform-cylindrical, to 3 mm long.
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