Shrubs or small trees, ca. 5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous except at top. Leaves alternate or clustered toward apex of branchlet; petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous or puberulent; leaf blade ovate or elliptic-obovate, 5-9.5 × 2.4-4 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous abaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, lowermost pair arising 5-6 mm from base, other pairs arising from middle or below middle of blade, base broadly cuneate or rotund, apex abruptly acute or subcaudate. Umbels 2-4-fascicled, sessile, 5-flowered. Pedicel short, densely pubescent. Perianth segments 4, elliptic. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments glabrous or pubescent only at base, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate large peach-shaped glands at base; rudimentary pistil glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 10 × 6 mm; fruiting pedicel 5-6 mm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep.
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