Shrub to 7 m tall; twigs slender, pubescent with sessile, scutellate hairs with midpoints reduced or absent. Leaves to 20 cm long, ovate, apically acuminate, basally rounded, glabrate above, beneath vestite with sessile, crowded scutellate hairs and a mixture of porrect, pauciradiate hairs; petioles to 1 cm long; minor leaves mostly wanting. Inflorescence a congested, small corymb standing erect, almost terminal or becoming lateral or opposite the leaves, the peduncle slender, to 10 cm long, vestite with a yellowish or bronzy cast, angled near the apex; pedicels to 5 mm long, angled, becoming 8-10 mm long, stouter and dark in fruit. Flowers small; calyx irregularly lobed about halfway down, vestite out-side, glabrous within, slightly accrescent in fruit; corolla white, 6-8 mm across, vestite outside, drying testaceous, glabrous within; filaments basally connate, glabrous, the anthers 2 mm long, stout; ovary sometimes with a few scutellate hairs on top, glabrous on the sides, the style glabrate. Fruit 6-8 mm across, glabrate, ripening black.
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