Dioecious shrubs and small trees to about 7 m. tall. Branches moderately stout, densely ferruginous-pubescent to glabrate. Leaves petiolate, the blade ovate-to obovate-elliptic, usually more or less caudate-acuminate, obtuse to cuneate at the base, 7-36 cm. long, 3-15 cm. broad, firmly membranaceous, glabrous above but frequently more or less puberulent beneath, the petiole 0.5-5.0 cm. long. Inflorescences 4-1-5 cm. long, essentially glabrous to densely ferruginous-pubescent, rather few-flowered to many-flowered and occasionally greatly proliferous and the flowers and bracts becoming phylloid; cymules obscurely dichasial, both terminal and lateral flowers subsessile or with essentially similar short stout pedicels. Stami-nate perianths tubular-urceolate, 5-10 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, essentially glabrous to minutely puberulent to essentially glabrous. Anthocarps ellipsoid to ovoid, 7-12 mm. long, glabrous to minutely puberulent, red.
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