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Leaves not restricted to apices of branches; blades 3–8 × 1.5–6 cm, broadly elliptic to round or sometimes obovate, rounded or sometimes obtuse at apex, acute or occasionally obtuse at base, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, moderately shiny on upper surface; lateral nerves in 3–4 main pairs; tertiary nerves coarsely reticulate, prominent on both surfaces; domatia present as small punctured blisters; petioles 2–4 mm long, rather stout; stipules 4–5 mm long with a short truncate to triangular base bearing a linear keeled lobe.
Shrub to 3 m tall, often scandent, usually with short perpendicular lateral branches, glabrous; bark pale grey, often with tissue-like flakes peeling off the young stems.
Flowers 5-merous, borne in subsessile 5–30-flowered, subumbelliform cymes; peduncles up to 2 mm long; pedicels 2–8 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles inconspicuous.
Corolla whitish; tube 4–5 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs above the mid-point inside; lobes 6 × 2.5 mm, oblong, acute or obtuse.
Pyrene almost semicircular in outline, acute at apex, rounded at base, pale fawn-coloured, rugulose.
Calyx tube 1.25 mm long, glabrous; limb reduced to a dentate rim, ciliate.
Fruit 7–9 × 9–11 mm, prominent at the apex, black; pedicels accrescent.
Pollen presenter 2–2.5 mm long; disk glabrous.
Anthers reflexed.
Style 9 mm long.
