Tiny tree, 2.5-6 m high. Leaves elliptic to obovate, apex mucronate, base obtuse, 5-6 by 3-4 cm, margins revolute, the reticulation very fine. Staminate inflorescences unknown. Pistillate inflorescences 2 cm long; flowers green in bud, calyx deeply 4-or 5-lobed, ovate, caducous, styles recurved, as long as ovary, pistillodes 1 or 2 in pistillate flowers; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Fruiting axes 3-6 cm long, 1 mm thick. Drupes ovoid, smooth, 7-8 mm long, 5-6 mm diam., green at youth, blue colour, without calyx; fruit stalks 5 mm long. Fig. 7.
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