Shrubs 1.2-5 m, polygamodioecious. Branchlets terete. Petiole 3-8 mm, glabrous; leaf blade very narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, leathery, 5-11.5 × 0.7-1.3 cm, glabrous, base attenuate, margin entire, apex acuminate, rarely obtuse; primary veins obscure. Panicles axillary, 2-6 cm. Staminate flowers: pedicel slender, 0.5-1.5 mm; calyx ca. 0.5 mm; corolla white, 1.2-1.4 mm, lobes broadly ovate, ca. 0.4 mm, acute. Bisexual flowers: pedicel 1.5-2 mm; calyx ca. 0.7 mm; corolla white, becoming rose, 1.7-2 mm, lobes broadly ovate, 0.4-0.5 mm, acute. Drupe ripening yellow-brown, ellipsoid, 7-8 × 3-5 mm, ribbed. Fl. Mar-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.
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