Trees, 5-10 m tall, dioecious or monoecious. Branchlets brownish purple to grayish brown, with appressed grayish white pubescence. Stipules linear, 8-10 mm, pubescent, caducous. Petiole 0.8-2 cm, with adnate pubescence; leaf blade lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 7-15 × 1.5-4.5 cm, thinly papery, abaxially completely covered with silver gray to grayish yellow appressed shiny pubescence, adaxially dark green and smooth or ± scabrous, base ± rounded to rarely ± cordate and symmetric or ± oblique, margin denticulate, apex acuminate to acute; basally 3-veined; secondary veins 3-5 on each side of midvein. Cymes shorter than petiole; peduncles with adnate pubescence. Male flowers: ca. 1 mm in diam. Ovary rudimentary, apically sparsely pubescent. Female flowers: shortly pedicellate. Tepals 5, triangular-ovate. Drupes blackish purple when mature, ± globose to broadly ellipsoid, ± compressed, 2-3 mm in diam., glabrous; perianth persistent. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.
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