Usually a shrub up to 2.5 m. high, rarely a tree to 12 m.. Leaf-lamina ovate-elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, 2–5.5 cm. long, 1–2.4 cm. wide, acuminate to an obtuse apex, base rounded to broadly cuneate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, muricate-papillate beneath.. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, shortly cymose, almost always several-flowered; peduncle 1–2 mm. long; rhachides 0.5–1.5 mm. long; pedicels ± 0.5 mm. long; bracts caducous.. Calyx obconic, ± 2.5 mm. long and broad; lobes very broadly triangular, ± 0.5 mm. long.. Petals subtriangular, 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, white.. Anthers 1.8 mm. long; filaments 4 mm. long.. Fruit ellipsoid, 8–9 mm. long, 6–7 mm. in diameter, black.
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