Shrub up to 6 m. Branchlets stout, green. Stipules ovate, 4-6 by c. 2 mm, acute to acuminate, ciliate. Leaves oblong to linear oblong, 8-40 by 2-10 cm, acute at apex, tapering at base, margin distinctly and irregularly denticulate, nerves 1-2 mm apart; petiole 2-5 cm. Panicles erect, 8-20 cm; pedicels 4-10 mm, articulate at base; bracts 8-10 by 2-4 mm, lanceolate, acute. Flowers ☿, erect, often in pairs. Sepals obliquely ovate to elliptic, unequal, 4-7 by 2-3½ mm, ciliate. Petals obliquely obovate to spatulate, 4-10 by 2½-5 mm. Anthers 3-5 by c. 1 mm, yellow. Ovary ovoid to bottle-shaped, 2-4 by c. 1 mm, style 1½-3 mm. Fruit globular, up to 1 cm ø, fleshy, via red turning white. Seeds like sectors of a sphere, c. 4 by 2 mm.
From sea-level up to 1000 m, on poor soils, preferably in moist, shady places (see also under the genus).
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