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Leaf blades 1–13 x 0.5–5.2 cm., elliptic to obovate-oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous, thin, the margins often ± crinkly in the dry state; petiole 0.2–1.1(1.5) (exceptionally to 4) cm. long; stipules 1-2 mm. long, triangular or short and very rounded, either without cusps or with 2 rather obscure separated cusps.
Fruit translucent greenish yellow, pink or shiny black according to field notes, 4.5–5 x 3–3.5 mm. ovoid or ellipsoid, grooved between the pyrenes; pyrenes pale, 4–5 x 3.8 x 2 mm., semi-ellipsoid, with short median dorsal keel at base and shallow ventral grooves.
Flowers scented, in trichotomous or much branched ± small inflorescences, the ultimate elements being subcapitate; primary peduncles 0.6–5 cm. long; secondary peduncles 0.3–3 cm. long; pedicels obsolete.
Anthers included in long-styled flowers, the rips 1 mm. below the throat; style exserted 2 mm. in long-styled flowers, the stigma lobes 1.5–2 mm. long.
Much-branched bushy shrub to small tree 2–4.5(7.5) m. tall, with 2-ribbed or ridged stems, glabrous, soon becoming grey and corky.
Corolla white or greenish-white, often ringed or ripped with pink; tube 4–6(7) mm. long, widened above; lobes 2 x 1.2 mm., ovate.
Filaments distinctly exserted in short-styled flowers, the bases of the anthers 0.5–1 mm. above the throat.
Calyx tube 0.8 mm. long, squarish; limb tube c. 0.25 mm. long; lobes 0.25 mm. long, ovate-triangular.
Style 1.4 mm. long in short-styled flowers, stigma lobes 0.6 mm. long.
Buds not or scarcely winged.
