Shrub 1–3 m. tall or small tree; young stems glabrous.. Leaf-blades elliptic, 4–20 cm. long, 2–8 cm. wide, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base, glabrous, thin; nodules absent, domatia present; petiole 0.6–5 cm. long, glabrous or puberulous above on angles; stipules ovate to triangular, 5–10 mm. long, acute at the apex, shortly ferruginous-puberulous or rarely glabrous, deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in much-branched panicles, the individual clusters congested; peduncles 2–6 cm. long, glabrous to ± shortly pubescent; secondary branches 0.2–3.5 cm. long, ± pubescent; pedicels ± obsolete, becoming 1–3 mm. long in fruit; bracts and bracteoles minute.. Calyx-tube obconical, 1 mm. long, glabrous; limb broadly cupuliform, 1 mm. long, glabrescent or puberulous outside; lobes very short or obsolete.. Corolla yellow or white, glabrous or shortly puberulous outside; tube 2.5–3.5 mm. long; lobes oblong 2.5–3 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, thickened at the apex.. Stamens with filaments 1.75 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 0.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers.. Style 2 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 3.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 0.5–0.75 mm. long.. Drupes red, with 2 pyrenes, subglobose, 7 mm. in diameter; pyrenes depressed semi-globose, 4.5 mm. in diameter, 3 mm. thick, ventral face flat, dorsal face not ribbed.. Seeds similar to the pyrenes in shape and size; ventral face plane, dorsal face not ribbed; albumen ventrally deeply, dorsally shallowly ruminate.
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