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Tree or shrub, 1.2-5.0 m high; bark grey. Leaves petiolate, in whorls of 3 or spirally arranged; glabrous and dark green above, silvery with silky hairs below, margins entire, midrib indented above, apex ending in hair-like apex. Flowers in terminal heads, small, greenish white. Male flowers: calyx 5-segmented; petals 5, elliptic; stamens 5. Female flowers: calyx and corolla as in male; staminodes 5, rudimentary; ovary 1-locular, symmetrical, with single basal ovule; styles 3; stigmas somewhat capitate. Fruit shiny, kidney-shaped, becoming black and wrinkled.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-4 m tall. The young branches have a few hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are sword shaped and rounded at the tip. The edges are wavy. The flowers are in long sprays at the ends of the branches and in the axils of the leaves. The flowers are small and white. The fruit are small and kidney shaped. They are shiny and black.
