Shrub or small tree 1–7.5 m. tall; stems glabrous.. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, oblong-or obovate-elliptic or obovate, 5–27 cm. long, 1.5–15.5 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous on both surfaces or slightly hairy on main nerve beneath, thin; nodules absent and domatia inconspicuous or absent; petiole 1–3.5 cm. long, glabrous; stipules obovate-elliptic, (0.8–)1.2–2.5 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in broad lax much-branched panicles 14–25 cm. long; peduncle 2–12.5 cm. long, glabrous; branches 0.5–9 cm. long, glabrous or shortly pubescent; pedicels up to 0.5 mm. long or obsolete; lower bracts 3.5–8 mm. long, clasping the stem or sometimes forming an involucre at point of initial branching, rest and bracteoles minute.. Calyx-tube obconic, 0.5 mm. long; limb cupuliform, 0.4–0.5 mm. long, glabrous; lobes triangular, 0.3–0.5 mm. long.. Corolla white or tinged lilac, glabrous outside; tube 1.5–3.5 mm. long; lobes ovate to triangular, 0.75–1.75 mm. long, 0.5–0.7 mm. wide.. Stamens with filaments 0.1–0.25 mm. long in short-styled flowers and ± obsolete in long-styled flowers.. Style 0.25–1 mm. long in short-styled flowers and 2 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma 0.25–0.5 mm. long.. Drupes red with 2 pyrenes, ellipsoid, ± 4.5–6 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide, or subglobose, 4–5 mm. in diameter, strongly grooved when dry; pyrenes pale brown, semi-ellipsoid, 3.5–5.5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide, 2–2.2 mm. thick, with dorsal face 5-grooved.. Seeds very dark blackish red, 4.2 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick, with ventral surface plane and dorsal surface ± 6-ribbed; albumen ruminate.
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