Shrub or tree 2.4–10 m. tall, with glabrous stems.. Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 7–19 cm. long, 3–13 cm. wide, very shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate to ± rounded at the base, glabrous above and beneath save for hairs around the domatia, papery to thinly coriaceous; nodules absent; petiole 1–4(–5.5) cm. long, glabrous; stipules ovate-triangular, 0.6–1.7 cm. long, the apex entire or slightly bifid, mostly ciliate at the apex but otherwise glabrous, deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in usually branched inflorescences 3–16 cm. long, the individual components being ± condensed heads 1.5–3 cm. in diameter, becoming laxer in fruit; peduncles 1.5–13(–15) cm. long, glabrous or glabrescent; secondary branches 0.3–1.3 (–2) cm. long, often with bifarious ferruginous hairs; pedicels 0–1.5 mm. long, lengthening to 4 mm. in fruit; main bracts ovate, ± 4 mm. long, aristate, others small.. Calyx-tube obconic, 1 mm. long, glabrous to densely ferruginous hairy; limb ± funnel-shaped, 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; lobes rounded-triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, ± ciliate.. Corolla yellow, glabrous outside; tube 0.8–1.2 cm. long, glabrous inside; lobes ovate-elliptic, 3–4 mm. long, 2.2–2.5 mm. wide, thickened at the apex.. Stamens with filaments 1.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 0.2–0.5 mm. in long-styled flowers.. Styles in short-styled flowers 5.5 mm. long, in long-styled flowers 0.75–1.2 cm. long; stigma-lobes 1.5–2 mm. long.. Drupes steel-blue, subglobose, 7–8(–12 in spirit) mm. in diameter, with 2 pyrenes, glabrous, not grooved, crowned with the conspicuous calyx; pyrenes pale brown, depressed semiglobose, in spirit material 7.5 mm. long and wide, 4 mm. thick, smooth.. Seeds similar in size with ventral face plane and dorsal face not ribbed; albumen conspicuously ruminate on both faces.
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