Drypetes parvifolia (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.

A shrub or small tree up to 6 m. with spreading lateral branches.. Bark smooth, greyish.. Twigs pale grey or whitish.. Young shoots and petioles glabrous or subglabrous, rarely pubescent.. Buds minutely perulate.. Petioles 1–3 mm. long; leaf-blade obliquely ovate to elliptic-ovate, 3–8 cm. long, 1.5–4(–5) cm. wide, acutely or subacutely acuminate, asymmetrically cuneate, rounded, truncate or very shallowly cordate, shallowly serrate to subentire, coriaceous to chartaceous, not or slightly shiny, lateral nerves 4–6 pairs, 2–3 of these sometimes crowded at the base, looped within the margin, tertiary nerves reticulate, more prominent beneath than above, commonly quite glabrous above and beneath, bright or deep green and glossy above.. Stipules lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, subentire, subglabrous, readily caducous.. Male flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles; pedicels 2.5–3 mm. long, glabrous; sepals orbicular, 3 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, glabrous, ciliate, whitish; stamens 8, in 1 whorl, 2 mm. long, anthers 1 mm. long; disc with a strongly crisped-convolute glabrous or ciliolate margin, the lobes enveloping the filaments, surface smooth and with a conic-cylindric central projection.. Female flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 3–4 mm. long, glabrous; sepals resembling those of the ♂ flowers, but somewhat accrescent and longitudinally striate-nerved; disc thick, fleshy, puberulous; ovary 2-locular, ovoid-subglobose, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, fulvous-tomentose; styles 2, subpersistent; stigmas subsessile, reniform-bifid, recurved, ± smooth, the ends soon breaking off.. Fruit subglobose, 1.2–1.8 cm. long, 1.3–1.6 cm. wide, smooth, glabrescent, bright orange or red when ripe.. Seeds ovoid, 1.1 cm. long.