Trees, up to 22 m tall. Young branchlets and petioles covered with dense yellow-brown pubescence. Leaves 4-or 5-verticillate; petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic, 15-31 × 4.5-9 cm, glabrate and mostly glaucous abaxially, densely yellow-brown villous when young, shiny and glabrous adaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, transverse veins conspicuous abaxially, base acute, apex shortly acute or abruptly acute. Umbels lateral, 5-flowered; peduncle ca. 2 mm. Pedicel ca. 3 mm, with dense pubescence. Perianth segments 4, ovate. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments glabrous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate ellipsoid glands at base; rudimentary pistil ovoid. Fruit ellipsoid or globose, 12-18 × 8-15 mm, black at maturity; fruiting pedicel 7-10 mm, densely pubescent. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Aug-Oct.
Roadsides, watersides, dense forests in valleys; at elevations from 300-1,300 metres.
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