Shrub or tree to 12 (–18) m high. Shoots and branchlets puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 2.5–6 mm long; lamina elliptic, ovate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–14 cm long, 1.4–5.5 cm wide, decurrent or acute at base, acuminate or rarely obtuse at apex, glabrous and shiny above, glabrous below except in 1–10 domatia on most leaves; secondary veins mostly 6–9 pairs. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicel 1–2.5 cm long, sparsely puberulous; bract basal, ovate, c. 2 mm long. Sepals free, depressed-ovate, 0.8–1.3 mm long, 2–2.3 mm wide, glabrous except puberulous margins. Inner and outer petals similar, yellowish green or cream, oblong, recurved or flat with slight medial ridge inside, 20–26 mm long, 4–4.5 mm wide, glabrescent. Stamens c. 40, c. 1 mm long. Carpels 7–18; ovary 2–2.2 mm long, pubescent; stigma sessile, subglobular, puberulous. Apocarps subglobular, 9–10 mm long, 8–9 mm wide, orange to red to black, 1-seeded; stipe 2.5–5 mm long. Seed testa smooth.
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A shrub. It grows 1-6 m tall. It can be taller. The leaves are 6-10 cm long by 2.5-4 cm wide. Young shoots have brown hairs. The fruit are 8-10 mm long by 6-9 mm wide.
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