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Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1–3 cm. long, minutely appressed-pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one a little longer, sessile or subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 3·5–8·5 × 1–2 (2·5) cm., narrowly elliptic, subcoriaceous, sparsely appressed-pubescent when young and soon glabrescent, minutely glandular and punctate on the under surface, apex rounded, margin rather remotely and shallowly serrulate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs.
Tree or shrub, 2-5 m high; grey bark. Leaflets narrowly elliptic, discolorous, glabrous, margins shallowly toothed; veins below puberulent. Flowers simple, in lax panicles, white. Sepals 4, opposite, the 2 outer larger. Petals spathulate. Ovary with 2-lobed style, 1.5 mm long. Flowering time Nov., Dec. Fruit bright red, 6 mm in diam., subglobose.
Outer sepals 2 × 2 mm., subcircular, minutely pubescent, inner 1·8 × 1·2 mm., broadly elliptic, minutely pubescent.
Fruit bright red, 6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent when mature, 1 coccus usually developing.
Inflorescence 3–7 cm. long, usually branched, minutely appressed-pubescent to nearly glabrous.
Flowers in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long, glabrous.
Staminodes (no male flowers seen) with filaments 0·5 mm. long in female flowers.
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets greyish-white, minutely appressed-pubescent.
Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style up to 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid.
Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate.
