Shrub or small tree, 2-6 m; branchlets flexuous, often zig-zag, nigrescent, angular, puberulous on the tips, terete and glabrous elsewhere. Leaves generally ovate-oblong, somewhat variable in size and shape, shortly acuminate often slightly falcate at the apex, the tip blunt, ± broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, mostly very inequilateral (often one side rounded, the other cuneate at the base), firmly chartaceous, glabrous except greyish domatia, mostly dark brown to nigrescent when dry, paler beneath, somewhat shining above, dull beneath, mostly rather densely and conspicuously pellucid-punctate and-striate, (6-)7-15(-20) by (2-)3½-5(-6½, rarely up to 8) cm, entire or ± obscurely crenulate; midrib flat above, very prominent beneath, nerves (7-)8-10 pairs, slightly curved, ± parallel to each other, inconspicuous or somewhat impressed above, raised beneath, veins obsolete above, minutely elevated beneath together with the dense and very fine reticulations; petiole 0.6-1 (-1.5) cm, mostly pubescent. Flowers white to pale green, blackish when dry, in few-to many-flowered clusters. Bracts ovate, small (0.5 mm), densely greyish-pubescent. Pedicels c. 2 mm, pubescent. Calyx membranaceous, c. 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed, pubescent outside, laxly so inside. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous or laxly hairy, alternately 0.9 respectively 0.6 mm; anthers subglobose, 0.4 mm. Staminodes 0.4 mm, penicillate at the apex. Ovary ovoid, laxly pilose at the short style. Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, 1-1.2 by 0.8 cm, red to yellow when mature; peduncle pubescent, 3-4 mm. Seeds c. 4.
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