Shrubs, to 4 m tall; branchlets dark gray, with verruciform lenticels. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 10-15 × 3.5-5 cm, thinly leathery, shiny, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin weakly serrulate, apex acuminate to subacute; lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, abaxially permanent, reticulate veins horizontally spreading. Fascicles axillary, few flowered; pedicel very short, ca. 1 mm. Flowers light green; sepals ca. 1 mm, ovate, margin ciliolate, apex subacute; petals oblong, ca. 2 mm, apex subacute. Disk cupular, less than 1 mm tall. Stamens 3; filaments short, flat, inserted at margin of disk; anthers nephroid. Ovary concealed in disk, 3-loculed; style robust, conical, ca. 0.5 mm. Berry orange-yellow to orange-red, 2(-4.5) cm in diam., exocarp thinly leathery when dry, 3-or 4-seeded. Fl. Jun, fr. Oct.
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A shrub. It grows 4 m tall. The young branches are dark grey, The leaves are narrowly oblong and 10-15 cm long by 4-5 cm wide. They are leathery and shiny. The fruit are orange to red and round. They are 2-5 cm across and contain 3-4 seeds. The flowers are light green and they occur as small numbers in a group. The fruit is round and orange to red. They are 2-3 cm across. There are 3-4 seeds. The fruit are sweet.
Mountainous bosks, usually at elevations from 600-1,600 metres, but occasionally descending to 200 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in mountains between 600-1,600 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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