Small tree, 2-4 m high, branchlets terete, canaliculate. Leaves alternate-fasciculate; blades lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, slightly falcate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, 5-10 by 2-4 cm, chartaceous, green above, glaucous and papillose beneath, veins 7-10 pairs, very thin, obscurely protruding on both surfaces, midrib slightly ascending beneath; petioles semi-terete, 1.5-2.5 cm long. Staminate inflorescences flat, 1.5-4.5 cm long, calyx shallowly campanulate, 4-or 5-lobed, lobes short, broadly triangular, acute at apex, margins entire or serrulate, c. 0.2 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; stamens 7-10, subsessile, filaments oblong, 0.1 mm long, apiculate or mucronate at apex, dorsally compressed; pedicels flat, 2-4 mm long. Pistillate inflorescences angulate, 2-4 cm long, calyx 4-to many-lobed, ovate or oblong, subentire, acute or irregularly divided at apex, c. 0.2 mm long, reticulate, caducous, ovary elliptic-globose, styles nearly as long as ovary, stigmas radiate-revolute; pedicels terete, 1-2 mm long. Fruiting axes angulate, 1.5-3.5 cm long. Drupes obliquely obovoid, acute at apex, 7 mm long, 4 mm in diam., black, tuberculate, staminodia present; fruit stalks 1-3 mm long.
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