Shrub or small tree 1.5–10 m. tall, with glabrous stems.. Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 7–18 cm. long, 3.5–7(–10) cm. wide, acute, obtuse or slightly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, pubescent beneath on the midnerve and sometimes on the lateral nerves as well, or entirely glabrous beneath save for the hairy domatia; nodules absent; petiole 0.5–3 cm. long, glabrous or pubescent; stipules ovate or ovate-elliptic, 1–2(–? 2.5) cm. long, shortly bifid for 1–2 mm. or ± entire, glabrous save for a few marginal hairs, deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in much-branched panicles, lowest branches usually 4; peduncles 2–7(–15) cm. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent; secondary branches 0.3–3.5 cm. long, ferruginous pubescent; pedicels ± obsolete or 1–1.5 mm. long in fruit; main bracts lanceolate with sheathing lobed bases, 5 mm. long, ± ciliate; other bracts and bracteoles smaller, ± ferruginous pubescent.. Calyx-tube obconic, ± 1 mm. long, glabrous; limb cupuliform, 1–1.5 mm. long, ± glabrous, lobes very short or obsolete, margined with ferruginous hairs.. Corolla white or salmon-tinged above in bud, ± white when developed; tube 2.5–5 mm. long; lobes oblong-elliptic, 1.8–4 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, thickened at the apices.. Stamens with filaments 1.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers and 0.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers.. Style 2.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers and 3.5–7 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 0.5–1 mm. long.. Drupes red, with 2 pyrenes, ellipsoid, 6–7 mm. long, 4–5.5 mm. wide; pyrenes semi-ellipsoid, 6 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick; dorsal face ± 5-grooved.. Seeds blackish red, semiglobose, 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, 1.5 mm. thick; ventral face plane, dorsal face 5-grooved; albumen ruminate.
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