Semi-deciduous shrub or tree (1-)2-6(-10) m. tall, with dense rounded crown and dark grey or black rough deeply fissured corky bark; branchlets with reddish spreading hairs, setulae and glandular hairs; roots with black dye.. Leaves drying greenish black or reddish brown, oblong, obovate or obovate-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 1.3-12 cm. long, 1-6.8 cm. wide, acute, obtuse, rounded or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded to subcordate at the base, sometimes ciliate at the margin, almost glabrous to densely pubescent on the lower surface save for the puberulous to tomentellous or pilose-tomentose nerves; lateral nerves in 5-6 pairs, the tertiary nerves and venation forming a reticulum drying darker than the blade on the lower surface; petiole 0.4-1.5 cm. long.. Male flowers 3-7, 4-merous in cymes in the axils of reduced leaves and nearest true leaves towards the base of current year’ s growth or rarely solitary; peduncles up to 1.5 cm. long; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm. long, pilose and glandular; bracts opposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; calyx valvate-reduplicate, 3-4 mm. long, deeply lobed; calyx-lobes triangular to ovate-acuminate, pale tomentellous on both sides; corolla white, yellowish or greenish white, 4-6 mm. long, lobed almost to the base; corolla-lobes rounded to acute, minutely setulose, reflexed at the apex; disk undulate, glabrous; stamens 8, 3 mm. long, the filaments very short, hairy above; anthers yellow, lanceolate, 2.5 mm. long, densely silky pubescent; rudimentary ovary conical, minutely tomentellous to almost glabrous with 8 uniovulate locules; styles 4, glabrous.. Female flowers similar; staminodes 8, 1.5-2 mm. long; antherodes densely hairy; ovary conical, 1.5-2 mm. long, tomentellous to almost glabrous, with 8 locules; styles united at base, glabrous.. Fruit yellowish, globose, 1.5-3 cm. in diameter, setulose-puberulous; calyx strongly accrescent concealing the fruit, the lobes lanceolate or triangular to broadly ovate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, membranous with prominent venation, puberulous.. Seeds 8 or fewer, dull brown, 0.9-1.4 cm. long, 5-7 mm. wide; testa smooth or slightly reticulate; endosperm shallowly ruminate.
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A shrub or small tree with a dense rounded crown, 2-6 m in height, occasionally reaching 10 m. Bark: dark grey or black, deeply fissured and corky; branchlets reddish, with glandular hairs. Leaves: spirally arranged, tending to be crowded at the ends of the branchlets, obovate to elliptic, 3-11 x 1.5-7 cm, leathery, light to dark shiny green above, undersurface pale, with 5 or 6 pairs of lateral veins and net-veining forming a darker pattern, hairless or with hairs particularly on the veins; apex broadly tapering, sometimes shortly roundly acuminate; base tapering, though finally shortly rounded; margin entire, sometimes finely wavy; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, rather slender. Flowers: white, axillary, in short, 3-to 7-flowered clusters (Oct.-Dec.). Fruit: round, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, fleshy, yellowish, with short soft golden hairs, persistent calyx with 4 or 5 large, expanded, leaf-like lobes up to 3 cm long, light green, conspicuously veined, joined for about 1 cm to form a cup, tending to curve over but not completely, hiding the berry (Jan.-Jun.). Seeds: up to 8, about 1 cm long, dull brown.
A shrub or small tree. It loses many leaves during the year. It grows 6-10 m tall. The bark is corky. It is grey and deeply cracked. The small branches are reddish and have hairs. The leaves are alternate, simple and entire. They are 1-12 cm long by 1-7 cm wide. The flowers are of one sex. The trees are separately male and female. The flowers are white and in small clusters of 3-7 in the axils of leaves. The fruit are a round berry. They are 3 cm across. They are yellow. There are about 8 seeds. They are about 1 cm long.
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