Shrub or medium-sized tree up to 18 m tall and 25 cm ø. Bark greyish-brown to dark-brown, smooth or finely fissured. Terminal buds c. 4-4½ by ½ cm; stipules narrow lanceolate-acute, c. 4-4½ by ¼-½ cm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, elliptic-, lanceolate-, or obovate-oblong, (8-) 15-25(-42) by (4-)6-12(-19) cm, index 2½-3½, broadest at or above the middle; base unequal-sided, attenuate, rounded, or cordate-auriculate; margin distantly serrate at least for the upper half or subentire; apex rounded, acute, or acuminate-caudate, acumen up to 4 cm long; glabrous above, sparsely appressed-hairy beneath especially on midrib and nerves, glabrescent; midrib and nerves strongly raised beneath, flattish to shallowly impressed above; nerves (8—) 12—16(— 19) pairs, anastomosing along the margin; reticulations subscalariform, evenly spaced, distinct beneath; petiole (3-)5-12(-15) by (l-)1½-2½ (-4) mm, terete or adaxially flat near the base, strigose, glabrescent. Inflorescences a condensed, capitate, much-branched panicle or thyrse, axillary or borne on older, leafless branchlets, many-flowered, ♂or ♀, very rarely ♂♀, including the bracts densely appressed-hairy; bracts 2-4 by 2 mm. ♂ Flower c. l½- ø, sessile or short-stalked along the axes, perianth lobes ovate-elliptic, concave, c. 1½-2 by l-l½ nim; filaments l½-2mm, anthers 1-1 ½ by 1 mm; pistillode cylindrical, 1½-2 by ½ mm, at base surrounded by dense, whitish, erect hairs. ♀ Flower 2-3 by 2 mm; perianth lobes ovate, 1-1½ by ½-l mm; ovary 2-3 by l½-2mm, densely appressed-hairy; stigmatic arms l-l½ cm, slender. Fruit ovoid-, ellipsoid, sparsely appressed-hairy, glabrescent, 5-8 by 4-6 by 3-4 mm, beak up to 5 mm.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 8-15 m high. The stems have a few scattered hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are in 2 rows. The leaf blade in broadly oval. They are 8-40 cm long. They can be round or heart shaped and often unequal at the base. They taper to the tip. There are tiny irregular scales over the leaf surface. The veins are prominent underneath. The leaf stalk is 4-12 mm long and thick. The flowers occur as many in heads. The male and female flowers are separate on separate trees. The fruit are oval and 6-8 mm long. The fruit are green but red to black at maturity.
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