Shrub or small tree 3-15 m high, the trunk up to; 20 cm in diam, loosely branched, the branchlets whitish-gray-appressed-tomentellous. Leaves with the petioles (3-)6-12 mm long, canaliculate above, whitish-gray-appressed-tomentellous, the apex (junction of blade and petiole) often provided with 1 or 2 somewhat stalked cupulate glands; stipules narrowly triangular, to 4 mm long, whitish-gray-appressed-tomentellous; blade ovate or oblong, sometimes narrowly oblong, rarely oblong-obovate, equilateral to markedly inequilateral, rounded or truncate or sub-cordate at the base, bluntly caudate-acuminate and usually inconspicuously mucronate at the apex, coarsely serrate along the margins, 7-16 cm long and 3-7 cm wide, chartaceous, discolor, the upper surface dark grayish-green when fresh, + shiny and usually dark brown when dry, and sparsely appressed-pubescent, the lower surface dull, pale, densely to sparsely appressed-puberulous, the costa very prominent and the secondary veins prominent beneath. Inflorescences terminal or rarely oppositifolious towards the end of the branchlets, paniculate, some-times ? racemose, the axes whitish-gray-appressed-tomentellous. Flowers with the pedicels 3-5 mm long, whitish-gray-appressed-tomentellous; sepals 3, rarely 4, oblong-ovate, obtuse to acute at the apex, ca 4.5 mm long and 3 mm wide, ap-pressed-tomentellous on both sides; petals more or less obovate, rounded at the apex, ? crispate along the margins, slightly longer than the sepals; stamens inserted on a densely villosulous disc; ovary ovoid, glabrous, with 5-8 lamelliform placentas, the stigma minutely capitate and obsoletely 5-8-lobulate. Bacca subgl6bose, 6-10 mm in diam, the pericarp thin-coriaceous, green when fresh, blackish when dry; seeds ovate, ca 1-1.5 mm long, the testa black, shining, longitudinally sulcate.
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