Shrubs or treelets, up to 6(-10) m tall; young twigs pubescent. Stipules linear, 3-8 × 1-2 mm, pubescent; petiole 2-7(-10) mm, pubescent; leaf blade obovate to elliptic-oblong, (2-)5-10(-21) × (1.5-)2.5-4(-9) cm, papery, glabrous or rarely pilose adaxially, pubescent and rarely glabrous abaxially, dull, drying yellowish green, base acute to obtuse, rarely attenuate, apex rounded to acute or acuminate, sometimes mucronate; domatia present; midvein flat to impressed adaxially, lateral veins 4-9 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate. Inflorescences terminal to axillary, axes glabrous to pubescent, simple to branched twice at base, males 5-14 cm, females and fruiting 2-9 cm. Male flowers: pedicels 1-1.5 mm; calyx ca. 0.5 mm, cupular to globose, (3 or)4-lobed, divided for ca. 1/3, glabrous outside, pubescent inside with hairs often exceeding beyond calyx, margin erose, apex mainly rounded; disk cushion-shaped or annular and lobed between stamens, pubescent; stamens (1 or)2(or 3), 1.5-2 mm; rudimentary ovary terete or absent. Female flowers: pedicels 0.2-1.5 mm, 1.5-4 mm in fruit; calyx ca. 1 mm, cupular to nearly urceolate, 4-or 5-lobed, otherwise as in male; disk glabrous outside, glabrous to pilose inside; ovary glabrous; stigmas 3 or 4. Drupes ellipsoid, nearly terete to laterally compressed, 4-6 × 3-4 mm, glabrous; style terminal to slightly subterminal. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jun-Nov. x = 13.
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A shrub 2-3 m tall. It can be a tree 13 m high. The branches are round with fine hairs but become smooth and grey. The leaves are alternate. They are broadly oval and 3.5-9 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. The leaf stalk is hairy and 2-5 mm long. The flower arrangement is like a spike. It can be at the end of branches or in the axils of upper leaves. It is hairy and 3-10 cm long. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. Flowers are about 1.5 mm wide. The fruit is fleshy with a stone inside. It is flattened and hairy. It is 4 mm long. It turns blue when ripe. The stone has a netlike surface. It is 3.5 mm across.
Dry deciduous, deciduous and evergreen forest; at forest edges, in open spaces and bamboo thickets; in open or half-shady habitats; associated with dipterocarps, pine, oak; secondary, often disturbed, much degraded or frequently burnt vegetation.
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A tropical plant. It grows in secondary forest. In Nepal it grows from 150-1300 m altitude. In Yunnan in China it grows between 200-1500 m above sea level. It grows in secondary forest. In Sichuan.
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