Shrub or subshrub 0.2–1(–2) m. tall; young branches ± pubescent or hairy, often becoming ± glabrous and greyish white when older.. Leaf-blades broadly to narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 10–22(–32) cm. long, 4–10(–13) cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the base, usually thin, drying grey-green, sparsely to densely pubescent or hairy on both surfaces; nodules usually numerous, up to 2 mm. long, dispersed throughout the blade; petiole 1–7 cm. long, sparsely to densely pubescent or hairy; stipules prominently bilobed, the base ovate-triangular, 6.5–9 mm. long, deciduous, the lobes 1.5–4 mm. long, acuminate, glabrescent to densely pubescent.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in slightly to much-branched panicles 4–8 cm. long; peduncles 1.5–4 cm. long, glabrescent to pubescent; secondary branches 0.7–1.3 cm. long; pedicels ± 1 mm. long, glabrous or glabrescent; bracts almost obsolete.. Calyx glabrous; tube conical, 1 mm. long; limb cupuliform, ± 1 mm. tall, the lobes practically obsolete.. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube 2.5–3.5 mm. long; lobes ovate, 2.5 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide.. Stamens in short-styled flowers with filaments ± 1 mm. long.. Style in short-styled flowers ± 1 mm. long; stigma-lobes ± 0.75 mm. long.. Drupes red, with 2 pyrenes, broadly subglobose, 5 mm. tall, 7–8 mm. wide, somewhat 2-lobed, glabrous; pyrenes red-brown, semiglobose, 5 mm. in diameter, 3 mm. thick.. Seeds semiglobose, similar in size and shape, the ventral face with a median fissure; albumen not ruminate.
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