Tree or shrub, 3-5 m; branchlets minutely grey-pubescent or mostly glabrous, older parts very dark brown-red when dry. Leaves oblong or sub-ovate-oblong, distinctly shortly (1-2 cm) acutely, or bluntly acuminate at the apex, ± inequilateral and broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, firmly chartaceous, entire, dark brown when dry, not or very obscurely pellucid-punctate, shining and glabrous above, slightly paler and dull beneath, ± puberulent on midrib and nerves beneath, always with domatia, 10-17 by (3-)4-6 cm; midrib slightly impressed over the whole length above, very prominent beneath, nerves (8-)9-10 pairs, rather obscure and often very slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, curved and ± anastomosing with each other, veins laxly transverse, reticulations fine, specially beneath; petiole puberulent or glabrous, c. 8 mm. Flowers greenish, blackish when dry, 3-4 per fascicle. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent, 1 mm. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm, stoutish, slightly greyish-puberulent. Calyx c. 2.5 mm, sparingly greyish-pubescent outside, glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong, subacute. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous or nearly so, alternately 0.5 and 1.2 mm. Staminodes oblong-linear, 0.9 mm, pilose specially at their apex. Ovary narrow-ovoid, glabrous or slightly hairy towards the top, 2 mm. Fruit subglobose, c. 8 mm diam., orange-red; peduncle slender, 3-4 mm. Seeds few; aril red.
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