Shrubs or trees, 4-20 m tall. Bark gray or gray-brown. Branchlets subterete, glabrous or thinly pubescent, always lenticellate. Terminal buds small, densely gray-yellow pubescent or gray-yellow tomentose. Leaves alternate or subopposite; petiole 8-13 mm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade 7-12 × 2-4 cm, rarely longer or broader, oblique, leathery, glabrous or adaxially villosulous, midrib conspicuously elevated on both surfaces, lateral veins 8-12 pairs, veins densely reticulate, slender, conspicuously elevated on both surfaces, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, rarely acute or sometimes obtuse. Cymose panicles axillary or terminal, 3-6 cm; rachises and other parts pubescent; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Pedicels 2-8 mm. Flowers yellowish. Perianth segments ovate to oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm, pubescent. Fertile stamens 9; filaments pubescent. Staminodes 3, reniform. Fruits green, becoming black when mature, ellipsoid or obovoid-ellipsoid, 2-3 × 1-2 cm, densely and conspicuously verruculose; fruiting pedicels 5-10 × 2-3 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Dec.
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