Trees to 10 m tall, evergreen or nearly so. Trunk to 80 cm d.b.h. Branchlets brown, slender, pubescent, glabrescent, usually tipped with slender inconspicuous spines. Petiole 2--4 mm, puberulous; leaf blade elliptic, 4--9(--11) X 1.5--3.6 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially paler and ± pubescent along veins, adaxially dark green and lustrous, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acute to slightly blunt, lateral veins 10--12 per side, reticulate veinlets slender and raised on both surfaces. Male flowers in cymes, rarely solitary; pedicel 6--11 mm, pubescent; calyx deeply divided, densely pubescent; lobes 4, triangular, 1.5--3 mm; corolla pale yellow, urn-shaped, 5--7 mm, both surfaces pubescent, lobes 4, ovate, ca. 1 mm, and reflexed; stamens 16, villose. Female flowers solitary; calyx lobes 4, ovate, ca. 1 cm, puberulous; corolla white, tube ca. 5 mm, lobes 4; staminodes 6; ovary villose. Fruiting pedicel 2.5--4(--6) cm, slender. Fruiting calyx divided to near base, subglabrous; lobes lanceolate, (1--)1.2--2(--2.5) X 0.5--0.9(--1.1) cm, ± leathery, apex obtuse, veins several, subparallel, and prominent. Berries yellow, globose to ovoid, 1.5--3 cm, sparsely hairy. Seeds 4 or more, segmentiform, to 1.5 cm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Oct.
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