Shrub or small tree to 6 m high. Branches pilose when young. Leaves dark green, pilose above and below, especially on veins, not fetid when bruised; petiole 5–15 mm long, glabrous; lamina elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 2–6 (–10) cm long, 1–3 (–4) cm wide, broadly attenuate onto petiole, flat, acute to obtuse and apiculate at apex, primary veins 3 (or 4) on each side of midrib, with small, pilose domatia in their axils beneath; stipules broadly triangular, 1–3 mm long, acute, pilose. Calyx lobes obscure, or unequal and up to 1 mm long. Corolla 3 mm long, green. Male flowers 1–3; filaments 3 mm long; anthers 2 mm long. Female flowers usually solitary, 2 mm long; stigmatic arms 6 mm long. Fruit obconical, 4–5 mm long, dark bluish purple.
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