Shrubs or small trees in understorey, 3-15 m high, 2-24 cm diam., outer bark grey or brown, large pustular, brown green, scrape green, inner bark light brown, yellow, blaze amber yellow, sap staining wood yellow, wood cream, white or straw-coloured, yellow, buds green. Leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5-20 by 3-7.5 cm, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margins entire, hard chartaceous, lateral veins elevated above, 9-14 pairs, not glaucous, innovations light shining green above, adult leaves green, glaucous or not beneath; petiole red, 1.3-5 cm long, 0.6-1 mm wide. Staminate inflorescences 4-5.5 cm long, calyx caducous, stamens 8-10, anthers elliptic, apiculate, 1 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; pedicels 6-12 mm long. Pistillate flowers with bluish pruinose ovaries, stigmas bi-recurved, subsessile, purplish red, centre brown-black. Fruiting axes 3-4.5 cm long, 0.8 mm wide. Drupes oblique ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoidal, on a pendant axis, often numerous, green then dark brown, black, tuberculate or verrucose, 7-10 mm long, 7-9 mm wide; pedicels 6-8 mm long; fruit stalks 5-12 mm long. Fig. 3g.
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