Shrubs or trees, to 20 m. Buds, young branchlets, and inflorescence axes appressed to patently hairy. Branchlets dark brown, glabrescent. Petiole 1--5 mm; leaf blade ovate, elliptic, narrowly ovate, or narrowly elliptic, 2--10 X 1.5--4.3 cm, submembranous to papery, abaxially often sparsely appressed fine hairy, adaxially glabrous or rarely sparsely appressed fine hairy, base attenuate-cuneate, margin finely crenate to dentate, apex caudate-acuminate, midvein adaxially flat or prominent, lateral veins 6--11 pairs. Spikes 1--4 cm; bracts elliptic-ovate, 0.5--2 mm, pubescent; bractlets deciduous under fruit, triangular to broadly ovate, 0.5--1.5 mm, pubescent, margin ciliate. Ovary 0.5--1.5 mm, glabrous, sparsely appressed fine hairy, or pubescent. Calyx lobes ovate, 0.5--1.5 mm, appressed fine short hairy, apex rounded. Corolla 2.5--4 mm. Stamens 15--40. Disc shortly pilose to sericeous, rarely glabrous. Drupes ellipsoid to subglobose, 3--5 X 2--5 mm, apex with persistent calyx lobes. Fl. Mar-Nov, fr. Jun-Dec.
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Low shrub 1-2 m or tree to 20 m. Twigs appressedly to patently hairy, soon glabrescent. Leaves often sparsely appressedly fine-hairy beneath, acuminate, with cuneate to nearly rounded base and mostly finely glandular dentate or undulate margin, (narrowly) ovate, 2-10 by 1½-4¼ cm; midrib above prominent to slightly sulcate; nerves (4—)6—11 pairs, often meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 1—3(—5) mm. Flowers in a raceme to 3(-7) cm. Bracts and bracteoles persistent but falling in fruit, ½-2 and ½-1½ mm respectively. Pedicel 0-1 mm. Calyx usually sparsely appressedly fine short-hairy or pubescent, rarely glabrous, divided into ½-l½ mm long lobes. Corolla 2½-4mm. Stamens 15-40. Disk 5-glandular, mostly hairy including the style base. Ovary with same indument as calyx or glabrous, ½-1½ mm high. Fruit ellipsoid to globose, 3-5 by 2-5 mm, the calyx forming a blunt beak on top; stone smooth. Seed 1, filling the whole fruit, with U-shaped embryo.
In a variety of habitats, also in dense mossy forest at higher altitude, 400-2500 m. Fl. Dec-April; fr. May-Dec. Flowers noted as scentless.
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