Treelet or shrub to 10 m, 35 cm ø. Twigs glabrous or rarely appressed-pubescent. Leaves usually sparsely appressedly pilose, nearly glabrous beneath, with cuneate, slightly attenuate base, 8½-18 by 3-8½ cm; nerves 4-9 pairs; petiole 3-7 mm. Spike contracted, often branched, axis glabrous to appressedly pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles ovate to triangular, appressedly pubescent, 1-1½ and c. 1 mm long respectively. Calyx glabrous or nearly so, rarely appressedly pubescent, l½-2mm, the lobes ½-l½ mm, becoming longer by tearing apart when older. Corolla 3½-4 mm. Disk glabrous. Ovary appressedly pubescent, often narrowly funnel-shaped, 1½-2 mm high; style glabrous, the base glabrous or pilose. Fruit glabrous, deep blue.
Hill rainforest, 200-1400 m. Fl. Aug.-Jan.; fr. Febr.-May, Oct., flowers scented.
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