Shrubs or trees, to 6 m. Stems armed, glabrate to villous, glabrescent. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2.5-7 mm, villous (hairs tawny); blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), elliptic to oblanceolate or ovate, 16-76 × 10-54 mm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins plane, apex usually rounded to obtuse, sometimes retuse, abaxial surface villous, especially along midrib (hairs tawny, sometimes reddish brown), venation visible, adaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, midrib flat, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences 3-8-flowered. Pedicels 4.5-8 mm, glabrous or glabrate. Flowers: calyx 2.1-2.7 mm diam.; sepals 5, 1.4-1.8 × 1.3-1.5 mm, glabrous or villous; petals 5, white, median segment ovate to obovate, 1.5-1.9 mm, lateral segments lanceolate, 1.5-1.8 mm; stamens 5, 1.1-1.3 mm; staminodes deltate to ovate, 1.9-2.5 mm, erose; anthers sagittate, 0.7-1.5 mm; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular, 1-1.4 mm, hairy; style 0.8-1 mm. Berries purplish black, subglobose, 8-11 mm, glabrous or glabrate. Seeds 6.5-8 mm.
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