Shrubs or small trees, height not noted; stems glabrous. Petiole 1.2-6 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, pale reddish brown, dark brown, or green sometimes tinged with red-purple, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or elliptic-ovate, 10-16 × 3.5-7 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate to acute, margins flat, apex acute or acuminate; secondary veins 6-12 pairs, free or forming a weak submarginal vein, without domatia; stipules caducous, ovate, interpetiolar or shortly fused around stem, 7-10 mm, glabrous, ciliate, 2-lobed for ca. 1/5 of length, lobes ligulate to triangular. Inflorescences terminal, subcapitate to congested-cymose, several flowered, subsessile to sessile, glabrous to densely hirtellous; bracts triangular to ligulate, 1-3 mm; pedicels to 2 mm. Flowers subsessile to pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion turbinate, ca. 1 mm; limb ca. 1 mm, lobed for 1/3-1/2; lobes deltoid to narrowly triangular. Corolla in bud white, funnelform, glabrous outside; tube ca. 1.5 mm, villous inside; lobes triangular-oblong, ca. 1.5 mm. Drupes becoming red then black, ellipsoid to obovoid, 8-10 × 6-8 mm, with pedicels to 7 mm; pyrenes smooth or very shallowly 3-or 4-ribbed. Fl. Apr, fr. Aug.
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