Shrub or small tree 2–9(–20) m. tall, with spreading crown and often weak drooping branches.. Young stems pubescent or glabrescent, soon glabrous.. Leaf-blades elliptic or elliptic-to ovate-oblong, 7.5–20 cm. long, 3.5–12 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate, rounded or ± subcordate at the base, glabrous above save for the midrib and beneath save for pubescent nervation and hairy domatia, ± subcoriaceous; venation ± impressed above, raised beneath; petiole 1.2–3.5 cm. long, glabrous, puberulous or hairy.. Flowers hermaphrodite, fragrant, in often copious panicles of corymbose cymes up to 15 cm. long and wide, the axes glabrous to pubescent or long densely spreading hairy, sessile or subsessile or terminal flowers shortly pedicellate; pedicels articulate at the base, 1–2(–3) mm. long.. Calyx campanulate, 1.5–2 mm. long, with 4–5 lanceolate lobes 0.7–1.2 mm. long, acute, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate.. Corolla white, yellowish or pinkish white, campanulate, 4–8 mm. long; tube 1.5–3 mm. long; lobes 4–5, oblong, 1.5–4 mm. long, 1.5–1.8 mm. wide, obtuse or subacute, reflexed, glabrous or sparsely to densely ciliate at the apex.. Stamens exserted; filaments 2.4–3.5 mm. long; anthers brownish or blackish.. Ovary ovoid, 1 mm. long, glabrous; heterostyly frequent; style white or pale purple, exserted 2–4 mm. in long-styled flowers, 0.7–0.8 mm. long and included in short-styled flowers; stigmatic branches 0.5–1 mm. long.. Fruits orange, red or black, ovoid to subglobose, 2–6 mm. in diameter, apiculate, breaking up at maturity into 4 mericarps; pyrenes subovoid, 3.3 mm. long, 2.8 mm. wide; one inner face with an excavation towards the apex, the other not excavated but with an indentation bordering the straight margin; outer face convex with 4–5 ribs strongest towards the base and smooth towards the right-hand margin.
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A shrub or tree. It grows 7 m high. It can have drooping branches. The flowers are small and white. They have a scent. The fruit are red. There are several botanical varieties.
Found in a wide range of habitats including the understorey or at edges of evergreen forest and in riverine forest, forest patches, bushland and wooded savannah, at elevations up to 2,400 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in savannah and secondary jungle.
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