Shrubs erect or scandent, dioecious, unarmed. Branchlets deep brown, with numerous tuberculate lenticels, puberulent. Stipules linear, needlelike, caducous; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially deep green, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, 6-14 × 2.5-6 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially gray-green tomentose, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, base rounded or subrounded, margin often revolute when dry, sparsely hooked serrulate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, rarely acute. Flowers unisexual, 5-merous, few in 2-4 cm, cymose racemes; rachis, pedicel, and calyx puberulent. Sepals triangular, adaxially with conspicuous midvein, apex acute. Petals obovoid, shorter than sepals. Pedicels 1-2 mm. Female flowers with minute rudimentary stamens; ovary 3-loculed; style 3-cleft to half. Drupe red, turning black at maturity, subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam., with persistent calyx tube at base, with 2 or 3 stones; fruiting pedicel ca. 2 mm, puberulent. Seeds 2 or 3, obovoid-globose, abaxially with margined furrow for 4/5 of length. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Aug-Nov.
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