Tree 3-6 m tall; branchlets persistently puberulous with erect trichomes, even-tually glabrate, the old twigs with large widely scattered pale corky lenticels. Leaves frequently opposite, always in part alternate, 5-20 cm long, 2-8.5 cm wide, oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, acute to acuminate, broadly shallowly cordate at the base, chartaceous, entire or with a few coarse teeth near the apex, drying dark above, olive brown with darker brown main veins below, the midvein impressed above and raised below, the lateral veins plane above and prominent below, the tertiary venation prominulous below, densely minutely punctate above, glabrous except for a few trichomes along the main veins; petiole (1-)2.5-6 cm long, puberulous. Inflorescence cauliflorous or ramiflorous, openly pyram-idal paniculate, puberulous with erect trichomes, 14-25 cm long, the flowers on pedicels ca. 2 mm long. Flowers with the sepals 5, ovate, the tip rounded, ciliate, also sparsely puberulous; petals and stamens not seen; ovary ovoid, ca. 1 mm long, the style ca. 1 mm long. Fruit (immature) obovoid, to at least 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, white turning purple when fresh.
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