Trees 9--13 m tall. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. Branches darkish brown; young branches glabrous. Winter buds sparsely appressed pubescent. Petiole 1--1.2 cm; leaf blade elliptic, obovate, or oblong, 7--16 X 2--4 cm, leathery, glabrous, base cuneate, margin narrowly revolute, apex acuminate to obtusely acuminate, lateral veins 5--8 per side, reticulate veinlets dense and raised on both surfaces. Male flowers in 3--5-flowered pedunculate cymes, 0.8--1.2 cm; calyx campanulate, ca. 4 mm, densely appressed pubescent; calyx lobes 4, erect, flat at anthesis, triangular, shorter than tube; corolla urn-shaped, tube ca. 8 mm and outside densely sericeous; corolla lobes 4, ovate, ca. 3 mm, inside glabrous. Female flowers solitary; calyx lobes 4 or 5, soon crownlike after anthesis, both surfaces minutely pubescent. Fruiting pedicel 2--4 mm. Fruiting calyx strongly undulately plicate, appressed puberulent to strigose; lobes 4, erect, triangular, 6--10 X 7--8 mm, base reflexedly auriculate, margin subrevolute, apex acuminate. Berries subglobose, somewhat depressed, 2--3 cm in diam., densely dark red strigose, glabrescent. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Oct.
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