Tree up to 30 m tall or climber. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, sparsely and minutely puberulous, partly with uncinate hairs, or glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina subobovate to elliptic, 5-16 by 3-7 cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire; upper and lower surface glabrous; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 6-13 pairs, tertiary venation reticulate (to subscalariform with 1 or 2 ± straight intercostals); petiole 0.7-1.8 cm long, sparsely and minutely puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis often flaking off; stipules c. 0.2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary, capitate; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long, minutely puberulous; head globose to obovoid, 0.4-0.6 cm diam.; perianth c. 0.8 mm long, densely minutely puberulous at the apex; stamen c. 1.2 mm long, anther 0.2-0.3 mm long; bracts subpeltate, 0.8-1 mm long, the apical part 0.2-0.5 mm diam., whitish minutely puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary, capitate; peduncle 1-2.5 cm long, puberulous; head globose, c. 1 cm diam.; flowers c. 20-30; perianth 2.5-3 mm long, densely minutely puberulous; stigmas tongue-shaped, 0.5-2 mm long; bracts spathulate to truncate-clavate to subulate or to peltate, 2.5-3 mm long, the apical part 0.2-0.5 mm diam., densely whitish minutely puberulous. Infructescences subglobose, 1.5-2.5 cm diam., with 1-7 protruding fruiting perianths, these ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, puberulous at the apex, red at maturity.
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