Trees up to 12(-25) m, or large shrubs, bark dark purplish or brownish. Twigs densely hairy. Leaves elliptic to oblong or lanceolate to ovate, 6-18 by 2.5-6.5 cm, base rounded, apex acute, long tapering or acuminate, herbaceous, with 6-12 pairs of nerves, venation inconspicuous to invisible, (rather) densely hairy when young, hairs usually remaining underneath, basal glands 0-2 (-4), flat. Petiole 0.2-1 cm long. Stipules narrowly triangular to oblong, 3-8 by 0.5-2.5 mm, free, rather persistent, margin hairy, with glands. Racemes solitary, axillary, 1-10(-17) cm long, peduncle 0-0.5 cm, rachis hairy, pedicels 0-1 mm long. Flowers sometimes male. Hypanthium 1.5-3 mm high, densely to sparsely hairy outside. Perianth segments subequal or at least not regularly differentiated as sepals and petals, 8-10,0.5-2 mm long, hairy. Stamens 15-30, filaments up to 4 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy at base, anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long. Ovary densely hairy, style up to 4.5 mm long, often partly hairy, pistillode in male flowers minute. Fruits globular to transversely ellipsoid, 9-14.5 by 9-14.5 mm, exocarp hairy to almost glabrous, red when ripe (becoming black?), endocarp glabrous inside. Seed with glabrous testa.
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