Trees up to 17 m tall, ca. 30 cm in d.b.h., monoecious; bark fulvous, nearly smooth; branchlets glabrous with elevated lenticels. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm, yellowish or brownish puberulent; petiole 3-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-15 × 1.5-5.5 cm, leathery or nearly so, abaxially glabrous or only puberulent, adaxially glossy when dried, base cuneate, rarely obtuse, margin slightly revolute, apex acute, acuminate, or caudate-acuminate; lateral veins (5-)8-11(or 12) pairs. Glomerules axillary, up to 12-flowered, glabrous except for yellowish pubescent sepals and petals. Male flowers 3-4 mm in diam.; pedicel up to 2 mm; sepals triangular, 1.5-2 × 1.2-2 mm; petals elliptic to spatulate, 0.3-0.5 mm; disk shallowly cup-shaped, 2-3 mm in diam.; staminal column ca. 1 mm; free filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers ovoid, 0.6-0.8 × 0.4-0.5 mm; rudimentary ovary ovoid-conical. Female flowers 4-5 mm in diam.; pedicels ca. 1 mm; sepals as in male; petals rhomboid-rounded, ca. 1 mm; disk urceolate ca. 1 mm enclosing ovary, lacerate when ovary expands; ovary globose to ovoid; styles 2, free, ca. 1.5 mm, bifid, lobes linear. Fruiting pedicel very stout, up to 3 mm; drupes oblong-ovoid, 8-12 × 5-8 mm, purple-black when mature, 1-celled. Seeds ellipsoid with deep lateral groove, 6-8 × 4-5 mm, brownish, smooth. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Sep-Nov.
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A tree. It grows 17 m tall. The trunk is 30 cm across. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped and 5-15 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped and the edges are curved. There are 12 flowers in a group. The fruit is oval and 8-12 cm long by 5-8 cm wide. They are purple-black when mature.
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