Erect densely-leaved shrub or tree, c. 2 m high. Leaves verticillate or subverticillate; blades obovate, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, apex rounded, rarely emarginate to mucronulate, base obtuse, 4-7 by 2.5-4.5 cm, margins entire, coriaceous, thick-leathery, shining, smooth, brown on both surfaces, midrib whitish, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, thin, elevate-reticulate beneath; petioles broadly triangular, very short, thickened at the base. Staminate inflorescences oblong, 1.5-3 cm long, 0.2 mm wide, calyx absent or very shallowly cupuliform, stamens 8-11, filaments oblong, 1.3-2.3 mm long, anthers elliptic-ovate, 0.6-0.8 mm long with triangular apex 0.2 mm long; pedicels oblong, 4-7 mm long. Pistillate inflorescences angulate, 2.5-5 cm long; female flowers pale green, calyx oblong or obovate-oblong, subentire or with an irregularly divided apex, caducous, 0.4 mm long, 0.3 mm wide, ovary ovoid, stigma short, radiate or revolute; pedicels flat to terete, thickened toward apex, 2-3(-7) mm long. Fruiting axes 5 cm long. Drupes ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-6(-8) mm long, 5 mm wide, blue-black, glaucous, fruit stalks c. 5 mm long. Fig. 8.
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