Trees to 15 m tall. Trunk to 50 cm d.b.h., bark gray to grayish black. Branchlets slender, appressed yellowish brown pubescent. Petiole ca. 2(--3) mm, appressed yellowish brown pubescent; leaf blade elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or oblanceolate, 2--4.5(--7.7) X l--2(--3.5) cm, thinly leathery, abaxially paler, sparsely appressed pubescent, and brown when dry, adaxially shiny dark green and grayish brown when dry, base cuneate, margin ciliate, apex obtusely acuminate, lateral veins 5--7(--10) per side, reticulate veinlets inconspicuous. Male flowers solitary or paired; pedicel slender, ca. 7 mm, sparsely pubescent; calyx campanulate, ca. 2.5 mm, very sparsely pubescent; calyx lobes 4, ovate, margin ciliate, apex rounded to subacute; corolla white, slender, at least 8 mm (not mature), with narrow lines of pubescence; corolla lobes 4, oblong-elliptic, ca. 8 mm, apically reflexed; stamens 8, glabrous. Female flowers with ovary sparsely appressed white pubescent; styles 2. Fruiting pedicel ca. 1 cm, slender, slightly pubescent. Fruiting calyx ca. (5--)7 mm in diam., deeply divided; lobes 4, ± spreading, broadly ovate, ca. (1.5--)2.5 X 2.5 mm. Berries red, ovoid, 1.5--2.2(--2.5) X (1.1--)l.2--l.8 cm, glabrescent. Seeds dark brown, subcylindric, ca. 11 X 4.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Oct-Dec.
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