Shrubs, 1-2 m high. Leaves small, fasciculate; blades narrowly oblong-obovate, apex rounded or mucronate, base cuneate, 4-9 by 1-2 cm, margins revolute, coriaceous, yellowish green above, brown and papillate beneath, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, impressed above, prominent beneath; petioles triangular, sulcate above, 7-25 cm long. Staminate inflorescences 1-2.5 cm long, flat, slightly flexuous, slender, 0.5 mm wide, calyx absent or 2-lobed, lobes short triangular, entire, free, stamens 5-10, filaments oblong, 0.4-0.6 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, anthers usually oblong to broadly elliptic, apiculate to obtuse at apex, 0.5-0.9 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, staminodia (called glands by Hayata) present, bracts broadly ovate, entire, longer than immature flowers, caducous; pedicels flat, 4-8 mm long, 0.2 mm wide. Pistillate inflorescences unknown. Fruiting axes terete, 2-6 cm long, 1 mm wide, calyx absent. Drupes oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse on both ends, 9-12 mm long, 4-5 mm in diam., smooth, obscurely wrinkled, black, styles divaricate or discoid, staminodia scars persistent; fruit stalk quadrangular, 3-7 mm long, 1 mm wide, bracts caducous. Seed elliptic globose, smooth, 8 mm long, 4 mm in diameter.
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