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An erect much-branched shrub or small spreading tree up to 6 m high. Bole light brown, rough. Wood hard, white. Branches whitish or pale to dark grey. Young growth pubescent. Perulae (protective scales of buds) creamy-white. Petioles 3-10 mm long. Leaf blades 1-11 x 0.5-5.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, coarsely and often somewhat irregularly glandular crenate-serrate or dentate to subentire, cuneate at the base, often with 1-2 small subglobose glands at or near the base, membranous, sparingly pubescent to subglabrous on upper surface, often more evenly pubescent beneath, especially along the midrib and main nerves, dull green; lateral nerves in 4-6 pairs, ascending, looped or not, scarcely prominent above, slightly so beneath. Stipules c. 0.5 mm long, conical, not or scarcely aculeate and hardened, yellowish-brown. Male inflorescences 1-2 cm long, racemose; bracts minute, linear, fugacious. Male flowers: pedicels 1 4 mm long, subglabrous, jointed above the base; buds 1-2 mm in diameter, subglobose, shortly apiculate, subglabrous; calyx lobes 3-4, c. 1.5 x 1.5 mm, ovate, subacute or obtuse, pale green or yellowish-green; extrastaminal disk absent; stamens (9) 10-25, filaments very short, anthers 0.67 mm across, yellow; interstaminal glands minute, clavate, each tipped with a single hair. Female inflorescences few-flowered, and peduncles extending to up to 4 cm long in fruit, otherwise as in male. Female flowers: pedicels 1-2(5) mm long, thicker than in male, pubescent, jointed below the flowers; calyx lobes 2-4, c. 1.5 x 0.5 mm, lanceolate, acute, pale green; disk glands 2, 0.5 mm long, compressed-ovoid, obtuse to truncate, glabrous; ovary 1.5 mm across, 2-lobed, evenly to densely appressed sericeous-pubescent; styles 2, 1 mm long, united at the base, spreading, stigmas fimbriate to fimbriate-lobulate. Fruit 5-10 mm across, pendulous, dicoccous, rarely monococcous by abortion, subglabrous or sparingly to evenly appressed-pubescent, pale green. Seeds 2.5-4 mm in diameter, foveolate-reticulate; aril sticky, bright orange-red; testa black.
Leaf blades 1–11 × 0.5–5.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, coarsely and often somewhat irregularly glandular crenate-serrate or dentate to subentire, cuneate at the base, often with 1–2 small subglobose glands at or near the base, membranous, sparingly pubescent to subglabrous on upper surface, often more evenly pubescent beneath, especially along the midrib and main nerves, dull green; lateral nerves in 4–6 pairs, ascending, looped or not, scarcely prominent above, slightly so beneath.
Female flowers: pedicels 1–2(5) mm long, thicker than in male, pubescent, jointed below the flowers; calyx lobes 2–4, c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, lanceolate, acute, pale green; disk glands 2, 0.5 mm long, compressed-ovoid, obtuse to truncate, glabrous; ovary 1.5 mm across, 2-lobed, evenly to densely appressed sericeous-pubescent; styles 2, 1 mm long, united at the base, spreading, stigmas fimbriate to fimbriate-lobulate.
Male flowers: pedicels 1–4 mm long, subglabrous, jointed above the base; buds 1–2 mm in diameter, subglobose, shortly apiculate, subglabrous; calyx lobes 3–4, c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, ovate, subacute or obtuse, pale green or yellowish-green; extrastaminal disk absent; stamens (9) 10–25, filaments very short, anthers 0.67 mm across, yellow; interstaminal glands minute, clavate, each tipped with a single hair.
Fruit 5–10 mm across, pendulous, dicoccous, rarely monococcous by abortion, subglabrous or sparingly to evenly appressed-pubescent, pale green.
Female inflorescences few-flowered, and peduncles extending to up to 4 cm long in fruit, otherwise as in male.
Seeds 2.5–4 mm in diameter, foveolate-reticulate; aril sticky, bright orange-red; testa black.
Stipules c. 0.5 mm long, conical, not or scarcely aculeate and hardened, yellowish-brown.
Male inflorescences 1–2 cm long, racemose; bracts minute, linear, fugacious.
An erect much-branched shrub or small spreading tree up to 6 m high.
Perulae (protective scales of buds) creamy-white.
Branches whitish or pale to dark grey.
Bole light brown, rough.
Young growth pubescent.
Petioles 3–10 mm long.
Wood hard, white.
