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Small tree or shrub to 12 m. high; young branches flexuous, slightly fluted, older bark smooth, ash-grey.. Petiole 2–8 mm. long; leaf-blade glabrous, coriaceous, dark green when mature, lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5–6 cm. long, 0.8–2.5 cm. wide, acuminate to obtuse, cuneate to ± rounded at the base; midrib prominent beneath, impressed above; secondary veins inconspicuous.. Flowers white, axillary, solitary or in short racemes; buds clavate, 5–7 mm. long; pedicels up to 1 cm. long.. Calyx cupuliform, entire, papery, accrescent.. Petals 5, slightly hooded at the apex, 6–8 mm. long, 0.8–1.2 mm. wide, recurved when mature.. Fertile stamens 3(–4); anthers 1.2–1.8 mm. long.. Staminodes 5, opposite the petals; filaments adnate to the petals; anther-thecae 1.5–2.5 mm. long, more elongated than fertile thecae.. Ovary 3-partite at base, unilocular at apex; style up to 4 mm. long; stigma 3-lobed, capitate.. Fruit an obovoid to ellipsoidal drupe, 7–9 mm. long, partially enclosed by calyx when young, and almost completely so when mature, reddish, bearing remains of persistent style.. Fig. 3/9–12.
A scrambling shrub or small tree. It grows 5-7 m tall. It has lax drooping branches. The bark is grey. The leaves are narrowly oval. They are 1.5-5 cm long by 0.5-2.5 cm wide. The flowers are white and small. They are 10 mm long. They occur either singly or in loose clusters. The flower stalks are longer and slender. The fruit are round or oval and 7-9 mm long. The become orange or red when ripe.
Leaf-lamina dull deep green, 1·5–6 × 0·5–2·5 cm., elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or acuminate and usually mucronulate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, decurrent into the petiole; midrib impressed above, somewhat prominent below; venation inconspicuous, widely reticulate; petiole 3–8 mm. long.
Shrub or small tree, up to 12 m high. Leaves lanceolate, 50 x 20 mm, borne singly and alternately but close together and only near ends of branches, petioles slender, 3-8 mm long. Fruit a small (8 mm long) drupe, red when ripe with clearly discernible ring around apex. Flowers white.
Fertile stamens 3–4; filaments adnate to the petals; anthers 1·2–1·6 × 0·6–0·8 mm.; staminodes 5; filaments similar to those of the fertile stamens; anthers 1·5–2·5 mm. long, divaricate.
Fruit 7–9 mm. long, ellipsoid or obovoid, drupaceous, red, crowned with the persistent base of the style and enveloped nearly to the apex by the accrescent calyx.
Shrub or small tree up to 6–12 m. tall; crown rounded, low, spreading; twigs pendulous, flexuous; bark smooth, light grey.
Flowers axillary, solitary, or in short axillary racemes, sweet-scented; buds broadly clavate, 5–7 mm. long.
Ovary c. 1·2 × 1·4 mm.; style up to 4 mm. long, cylindric; stigma capitate, 3–4-lobed.
Petals 5, white, 6–8 x 0·8–1·2 mm., valvate, shortly cucullate at the apex.
Calyx membranous, truncate, with margin somewhat undulate.
