Evergreen shrubs or trees, (1.5-)3-15(-25) m tall, ca. 20 cm d.b.h. Bark brown, with longitudinally split striae, gray-brown. Terminal bud broadly ovate; bud scales gray-white sericeous-pubescent outside. Leaves alternate; petiole ca. 1 cm, glabrous; leaf blade pale abaxially, green and shiny adaxially, elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate, 5-10 × 2.3-4 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, trinerved or triplinerved, veins more convex adaxially than abaxially, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margin ± repand, apex caudate-acuminate. Umbels 1 or 2, inserted at upper part of branch in leaf axil, subsessile, male umbel 5-flowered, female umbel 3-8-flowered. Male flowers yellow-green; tepals 6, oblong, ca. 3.5 mm, pubescent outside; stamens 9, ca. 2.5 × 1 mm; filament pubescent, 2-glandular near base of filament in 3rd whorl; glands globose, shortly stipitate; reduced pistil ca. 2.5 mm; ovary ovate, ca. 1 mm; style equal to length of ovary, pubescent. Female flowers yellow-green; tepals 6, oblong, ca. 2 mm; filament 2-glandular at middle in 3rd whorl; glands oblong-globose, shortly stipitate; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 2 × 1.2 mm, pubescent; style ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent; stigma disciform. Fruits ovate, 8-9 mm, black-purple at maturity; stipes 7-11 mm, gradually thickened into a disciform 3-5 mm in diam. hypocarpium. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Sep.
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