Evergreen shrubs or trees, 2-10(-15) m tall, 10-15 cm d.b.h. Bark gray, longitudinally split striate. Branchlets brown, striate, densely yellow-brown villous, later slightly villous. Terminal bud broadly ovate, ca. 7 mm; bud scales densely yellow-brown pubescent except margin. Leaves alternate; petiole stout, 5-7(-10) mm, densely yellow-brown pubescent; leaf blade shiny adaxially, broadly ovate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 6-11(-15) × (3-)3.5-6(-7.5) cm, leathery, densely or sometimes laxly yellow-brown villous abaxially, slightly yellow-brown pubescent on midrib adaxially, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, rather thick, midrib convex abaxially, concave adaxially, base acute or cuneate, sometimes subrounded, apex acute. Umbels solitary or 2-4-fascicled in leaf axil, with 2-3 mm long peduncle and involucral bracts, male umbel 8-flowered, female umbel (2 or)3-6-flowered. Male flowers yellow; pedicels 4-5.5 mm, densely yellow-brown pubescent; tepals 6, ovate, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm, yellow-brown pubescent or glabrous on keel outside, glabrous inside; stamens 9, 4-4.5 mm; filaments glabrous, 2-glandular near middle in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform, cornute; pistil reduced; ovary ovate, ca. 1.5 mm; style ca. 1 mm; stigma obscure. Female flowers yellow; pedicels 3-5 mm; tepals 6, broadly ovate, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm; reduced stamens 9, ca. 1.5 mm, 2-glandular at middle of filament in 3rd whorl; glands rounded-reniform, nearly equal to length of filament; anther sterile or reduced to 1-celled, sometimes fertile and 2-celled; ovary obovate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous; style stout, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruits subglobose, red at maturity; stipes stout, 5-7 mm, thickened toward apex, slightly yellow-brown pubescent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Oct.
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An evergreen shrub or tree. It grows 2-10 m tall. The trunk is 10-15 cm across. The bark is grey and has splits along it. The leaves are alternate. Flowers are separately male and female and are in umbels in the axils of leaves. They are yellow. The fruit is a flattened round shape and red at maturity. They are 1 cm long.