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Stamens c. 9, included, c. 0·45 cm. long; filaments 0·05 cm. long, inserted on the receptacle, densely setulose; anthers 0·4 cm. long, linear–lanceolate, markedly apiculate; connective setulose towards base on both surfaces, otherwise glabrous.
Ovary narrowly ovoid–conoidal, together with the style 0·3 x 0·15 cm., glabrous, encircled at the base by a fringe of hairs; locules 4, uniovulate; stigmata 2, fleshy, sessile, irregularly lobed, 0·1 cm. long.
A shrub or tree. It grows 15 m high. The leaves are small. They are 7 cm long by 2 cm wide. The fruit are 2 cm long and usually oval. There are 2 subspecies.
Calyx 0·125–0·15 cm. long, sparsely setulose outside, margin ciliolate, glabrous inside; lobes 3, up to 0·06 cm. long, hemi–orbicular.
Male flowers subsessile, axillary or ramuligerous, solitary or in fascicles of 2–7; pedicels 0·05 cm. long, densely setulose.
Seeds 1–4, reddish–brown, 1 x 0·8 x 0·6 cm.; endosperm usually deeply ruminate, occasionally shallowly ruminate or smooth.
Corolla c. 0·9–1 x 0·275 cm.; tube 0·8 cm. long; lobes 0·15 cm. long, ascending, scarcely longer than broad.
Fruit up to 2 x 1·8 cm., red then black, globose, conoidal or ellipsoid–conoidal, verruculose, glabrous.
Staminodes 4–8, lanceolate, 0·25 cm. long, with a tuft of strigulose hairs at base of antherode.
Slash black and brittle outside, reddish inside like that of D. alboflavescens, crumbling
Small tree usually 8–15 m. high, but sometimes flowering as a shrub c. 3 m. high.
Flowers pale yellow or white, borne down the leafless twigs but not on the trunk
Leaves dark green and glossy above, margins coarsely undulate
Female flowers as in male but corolla only 0·6 cm. long.
Sapwood pinkish-white with black longitudinal lines
Fruiting calyx scarcely accrescent, 0·2 cm. long.
Forest shrub or small tree up to 45 ft. high
Pistillode represented by a tuft of hairs.
Bark dark brown or black, smooth
Fruit red, turning black.
