Spreading, much branched, often multistemmed shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall; bark dark grey to brownish, smooth or longitudinally fissured.. Branchlets patently hairy at tips, older parts glabrescent, covered with a thin cork and sparse lenticels, sometimes with axillary straight spines up to 2 cm. long and 2 mm. across at base.. Leaves deciduous; blade ovate to elliptic, sometimes ± obovate, shortly attenuate and obtuse or subacute at apex, base rounded-truncate, rarely subcordate, thinly chartaceous, becoming blackish when dried, entire, laxly hairy above, densely so or subappressed tomentulose beneath especially along midrib and nerves, 5–8(–11) cm. long, 2.5–5(–7) cm. broad; lateral nerves 2 basal or slightly suprabasal, and 3–4 upper pairs, all curved-ascending and becoming more faint towards the edge, slightly raised beneath, reticulation rather inconspicuous; petiole 6–10 mm. long.. Male flowers 3–5 per abbreviated cyme-like raceme or fascicle, these mainly from the axils of fallen leaves of second year branchlets, whitish to yellowish tomentellous all over, on peduncles ± 2 mm. long; pedicels slender, 3–6 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes (6–)8, lanceolate, ± 3 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. broad.. Stamens 25–30.. Disk-glands very small, globular, extrastaminal or almost so, i.e. about 2 before each calyx-lobe, pubescent.. Female flowers solitary, on a short peduncle (1–3 mm. long in anthesis, accrescent to 10 mm. in length in fruit), articulated with a slender pedicel (10–15 mm. long in anthesis, 15–25 mm. long in fruit), grey tomentellous all over.. Calyx-lobes 6–8, lanceolate, acuminate, 6–7 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, accrescent to 12 × 2–2.5(rarely –4) mm. in fruit.. Disk-glands forming a low hairy indistinctly lobed ring.. Ovary tomentose; styles 2.. Fruit ellipsoid, velvety, orange-yellow, edible, ± 2 cm. long and 1.3 cm. across.. Seeds 2, woolly.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m tall. The bark is smooth. The small branches are hairy at the tips. There can be spines 2 cm long. The leaves are oval. The fruit are orange. They are 2 cm long by 1.3 cm wide. There are 2 seeds.
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