Shrub or small tree, 2-9 m tall, clear bole 0.9-1 m in diam., crown 1.5 m wide, outer bark smooth, grey, slash outer bark green, inner bark coarse, brown like milk chocolate, sapwood whitish to yellow flush. Leaves fascicled at tip of branchlets, opposite; blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 5-10 by 2.5-4.2 cm, apex cuspidate, acuminate or mucronate, base cuneate, margins entire, coriaceous, brown above, glaucous beneath, lateral veins reticulate or in 8 pairs, elevated on both surfaces, the reticulation especially prominent on upper surface; petiole red-violet or tinged purple, 1.5-3 cm long. Staminate inflorescences 4-5 cm long; flowers purple, glaucous, calyx 5-lobed, stamens 6-8; anther red-violet, elliptic, apiculate, 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm wide; pedicels 7-9 cm long. Pistillate inflorescences 4-5 cm long, female flowers glaucous (green) in bud, 5 calyx lobes free, lanceolate, caducous, ovary with several staminodes, stigmas recurved to circinnate; pedicels 4-5 mm long. Fruiting axes 4.5 cm long, drupes ellipsoidal, 10-12 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, green turning to red brown, dull red to blackish purple when ripe, smooth; fruit stalks 0.4-1 cm long.
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