Evergreen small or medium-sized trees, up to 12 m tall, ca. 40 cm d.b.h. Branchlets densely brown tomentose. Leaves alternate or subverticillate; petiole 2-25 mm, densely brown tomentose; leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 5-22 × 1.2-6 cm, pubescent abaxially and villous along midrib and lateral veins, glabrous adaxially, lateral veins 10-20 pairs, transverse veinlets conspicously prominent abaxially, base cuneate or rounded, apex obtuse, shortly acuminate, caudate-acute, or long caudate-acute. Umbels solitary, rarely clustered, 4-or 5-flowered per umbel; peduncle absent or to 10 mm. Male flowers: pedicel sericeous-villous; perianth segments 6, ovate; fertile stamens 9-12; filaments villous, of 3rd or 4th whorls each with 2 sessile rounded glands at base; rudimentary pistil glabrous. Fruit oblong, 11-13 × 7-8 mm, seated on cup-shaped perianth tube, black-purple at maturity; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm. Fl. May-Nov, fr. Feb-Jun.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 12 m tall. The trunk is 40 cm across. The young branches have a brown coating. The leaves are alternate. The leaves are oblong and 5-22 cm long by 2-6 cm wide.
Roadsides, streamsides, weed-tree forests on mountain slopes, shady moist places, sparse forests, thickets; at elevations from 500-2,300 metres in southern China.
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in shady moist places between 500-2,300 m above sea level. In XTBG Yunnan. In Sichuan.
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