Trees or shrubs, to 10 m tall; terminal bud densely pubescent, twig tips and branchlets densely to sparsely pubescent, hairs spreading, yellowish brown. Stipules broadly triangular-ovate, minute, ca. 1 mm, densely appressed pubescent, caducous early or later; petiole 5-15 mm, densely to sparsely pubescent, hairs spreading; leaf blade often drying blackish green or blackish brown, variable in shape and size, elliptic to oblong, rarely ovate, 7-20 × 4-8 cm, thickly papery, initially pubescent on both sides, very densely so beneath, both sides becoming more sparsely hairy or glabrous except for midvein and main veins, hairs semispreading to appressed, yellowish, long (0.5-1 mm); leaf lateral veins 8-12 pairs, base acute to rounded, sides convex to concave, often oblique, margin serrulate, apex acute to obtuse, contracting to an acumen of ca. 1 cm or less. Flowers (1 to) few to many in axillary sessile or subsessile glomerules. Pedicels 2-4 mm, extending to 5-6 mm in fruit, articulate, sparsely pubescent, hairs semiappressed; bracts ovate, ca. 1 mm or less, outside pubescent. Sepals 5, ovate, hooded, 2-3 mm, outside pubescent, hairs as for pedicels, apex acute or obtuse. Stamens 8, rarely 5-7; filament ca. 1.5 mm, puberulous throughout; anthers ovoid, ca. 0.4 mm. Disk lobes narrowly oblong, ca. 2/3 as long as filament, glabrous adaxially except at tip, abaxially pubescent at tip and margin. Ovary conic, very sparsely puberulous, hairs semiappressed; style short, 0.5-1 mm, glabrous; stigma globose, 3-lobed. Capsule broadly ellipsoid, to ca. 1.2 cm, fleshy, when dry pericarp blackish, with dense shallow warts, with fine longitudinal ridges marking valve margins, black shiny vesicles absent. Seeds ca. 8, when dry pale yellowish brown, ca. 5 mm, smooth, enveloped in a thin, fleshy, pale yellow partly fimbriate aril. Fl. Feb-Dec, fr. Apr-Jun.
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Shrub or tree, up to 15 m; branchlets angular, ± patently and densely short-hairy to velvety. Leaves oblong-elliptic or oblong, rarely ovate, rounded or shortly acuminate at the top (acumen 0.5-1.5 cm, blunt or rather sharp), ± inequilateral, rounded at one side, attenuate at the other, rarely ± cordate at the base, thinly herbaceous, distinctly pellucid-punctate and striate, obscurely or mostly distinctly serrate-dentate, at first ± densely pubescent above, finally pubescent there on the midrib only, or entirely glabrous, the whole of the lower surface, specially on the nerves, velvety, rarely ± glabrescent with age, 5-13(-21) by 2-6(-7½) cm; midrib not or little raised above, distinctly so beneath, nerves (4-5-)6-8(-10) pairs, sometimes a little impressed above, always prominent beneath, veins + transverse, not or mostly little but visibly raised on both surfaces as are the finer reticulations; petiole densely pubescent, 5-15(-18) mm. Flowers rather numerous, fascicled. Calyx green or blue-green, ± densely patently pubescent outside, glabrous inside, c. 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed. Bracts minute, numerous, densely pubescent, 1 mm. Pedicels slender, pubescent, 4 mm. Stamens 5-8; filaments equal in length, pilose, 1.8 mm. Staminodes 1.2 mm, rather flat, hairy at the apex. Ovary narrow-ovoid, nearly glabrous, as long as the calyx. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, verruculose when dry, 1.2-1.5 cm long, c. 1 cm diam.; peduncle rather slender, glabrescent, 5-7 mm.
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