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Leaf blades 3–23 x 1.5–10 cm., elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate, acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous or sometimes with a mixture of long multicellular and papilla-like hairs on the venation beneath and sometimes with what look like scattered minute pale scales beneath (actually stomata glistening) or sometimes quite densely ferruginous hairy, surface often rugulose beneath, rather thin to coriaceous; nodules absent but sometimes there are lesions and bumps which closely simulate them; domatia usually very marked, hairy; petiole 0.2–3.5 cm. long, glabrous to pubescent; stipules 0.4–1.7 cm. long, obovate, bilobed at the apex, the lobes 1–5 mm. long, glabrous or margins ciliate and basal parts pubescent, deciduous.
Flowers sweet-smelling, heterostylous, 5-merous, in much-branched panicles 4–18 cm. long; peduncle 1.5–8 cm. long, glabrous or densely covered with minute papilla-like hairs or with dense spreading ferruginous hairs; secondary branches 0.4–1.4 cm. long, similarly hairy; pedicels 0–3 mm. long, usually glabrous or similarly velvety-papillose; bracts 3–8 mm. long, triangular to linear (very reduced leaves); other bracts and bracteoles small, usually margined with red hairs.
Corolla white, greenish or yellow, glabrous to densely velvety-papillose or pubescent outside; tube 4–6 mm. long; lobes 2–3.5 x 1.3–1.5 mm. wide, elliptic-oblong, incrassate and inflexed at the apex, densely grey papillose inside.
Tree 5–15(24) m. tall or shrub 1.5–5 m. tall; stem soon rugose or striate or the bark sometimes corky and transversally fissured, glabrous or densely shortly velvety pubescent or grey to ferruginous hairy on the young shoots.
Calyx tube 1 mm. long, obconic, glabrous to densely papillate; limb 1–1.5 mm. long, cupuliform, glabrous to velvety-papillate; lobes 0.5–0.75 mm. long, bluntly triangular or rounded, glabrous to densely velvety-papillate.
Drupes red, with 2-pyrenes, 5–6 mm. in diam., subglobose, scarcely grooved; pyrenes 4 x 4.5 x 2 mm., subglobose, ventral surface plane, dorsal surface slightly grooved.
Seeds dark blackish red, subglobose, about the size of the pyrenes, plane ventrally, with narrow deep dorsal fissures but not noticeably grooved; albumen ruminate.
Style 2–3 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 6–7 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 1–2 mm. long.
Stamens with filaments 2–4 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 0.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers.
