Shrub or small tree 1–5 m high; branchlets smooth, or minutely striate or tuberculate, glaucous, purplish. Leaves: petiole to 5 mm long; lamina narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 8–21 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, attenuate, cuneate base, acute to obtuse apex, chartaceous. Petals 2 or 3 (–8), 8–12 mm long, ovate. Male flowers: pedicels 20–45 mm long; stamens 60–98; sterile carpels 2. Female flowers: pedicels 12–39 mm long; carpels 1–4 (–8), with stipes 1.8–3 mm long; ovules 11–27. Apocarps ellipsoidal, 10–15 mm long, glaucous, blue-mauve to black; transversely septate pulpa present; stipes 1–5 mm long. Seeds 2–6, strongly curved, 2.5–3.5 mm long.
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