Shrub 2–5 m. tall or tree up to 10 m., with glabrous stems.. Leaf-blades elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, 2.8–8(–10) cm. long, 1–5 cm. wide, obtusely acuminate, acute or ± obtuse at the apex, mostly narrowly acuminate at the base, glabrous on both surfaces but lower surface looking as if covered with very closely packed minute scales (due to the stomata), moderately thick; nodules and domatia absent; petiole 0.3–3 cm. long, glabrous; stipules whitish, obovate-elliptic to rounded, 0.5–1.5(–1.7) cm. long, obtuse at the apex, glabrous or margin sometimes ciliate, very soon deciduous; nodes with zone of hairs inside at base of stipules.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in much-branched panicles 2.5–6 cm. long; peduncles 0.5–3 cm. long, glabrous or shortly pubescent; branches 0.3–1.2 cm. long, shortly sparsely pubescent; pedicels short or ± 1–2 mm. long, very shortly pubescent or tomentose; main bracts ovate, 2–3 mm. long, clasping the stem, rest small, often apically ciliate.. Calyx-tube rounded-conical, 0.5–1 mm. long, glabrous or tomentose; limb campanulate to tubular, 2–3 mm. long, glabrous, often split for ± 1 mm.; lobes obtusely triangular, ± 0.5–1 mm. long, often ciliate on the apical margins.. Corolla white or cream or reddish in bud, glabrous outside; tube 4–5 mm. long; lobes oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2 mm. long, 1–1.8 mm. wide, ± uncinate at the apex.. Stamens with filaments ± 0.3 mm. long in short-styled flowers.. Style 2.5–3 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 4.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes ± 0.5 mm. long.. Drupes orange-red, with 2 pyrenes, subglobose or ellipsoid, 5–7 mm. long and wide, glabrous, grooved, crowned with the calyx-limb; pyrenes pale brown, semi-globose, 6 mm. long, 5–5.5 mm. wide, 2.5 mm. thick, dorsally 6-grooved.. Seeds 5 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, 2.2 mm. thick, ventrally flat, dorsally obtusely ribbed; albumen all strongly ruminate.. Fig. 2.
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