Tree up to 40 m tall or shrub, dioecious. Leafy twigs 0.5-2 mm thick, (sub)glabrous or whitish minutely puberulous. Leaves distichous; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic to subovate to narrowly ovate (or to subrhombic or linear), 1.5-16 by 0.5-4.5 cm, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to almost rounded (or to subattenuate), margin subentire (or dentate); upper surface glabrous; lower surface puberulous on the main veins or glabrous, often with minute red or red-brown pluricellular trichomes; midrib ± prominent above, lateral veins 5-18 pairs (or if the lamina is linear, then up to 30 pairs), tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.3-1.7 cm long, sparsely whitish appressedly puberulous; stipules 0.2-0.5 cm long, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, up to 5 together, spicate (or uniflorous); peduncle 0.3-1.5 cm long, sparsely minutely puberulous; spike 0.8-2 cm or up to 3 cm long; flowers (1-)3-15 or up to 30; perianth 1-2 mm long, minutely puberulous or only ciliolate, stamens 2.5-3 mm long, anthers 1-1.2 mm long; bracts basally attached, 0.3-1 mm long, sparsely minutely puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, up to 5 together, short-spicate to subcapitate or uniflorous; peduncle 0.5-2 cm long, minutely puberulous; flowers 1-3(-9); tepals 1-1.5 mm long, ciliolate or subglabrous, in fruit hardly enlarged; ovary 1.5-2 mm long, stigmas c. 2 mm long; bracts basally attached, 0.3-1 mm long, ciliolate or subglabrous. Fruit ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.8-1.2 cm, dark red to purple at maturity.
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A tree. It grows 40 m tall. The leaves are in 2 rows. There can be several flowers in a group. The fruit are oval and 0.8-1.2 cm long. They are dark red to purple at maturity.
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