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Leaf blades 3–11.5(16) x 1.2–5.7 cm., elliptic, narrowly ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, almost or completely glabrous to densely appressed pubescent above, more or less velvety beneath with ± white hairs, particularly along the main nerves so that they stand out against the rest of the surface; petioles 0.5–1.7 cm. long; stipules with ovate or triangular bases 1–4 mm. long, with 0–7 (usually 3) unequal subulate fimbriae 0.5–4(6) mm. long, mostly with distinct colleters.
Corolla with pale green to white tube and white limb; tube 0.7–1.05 cm. long; lobes sometimes tinged pink, 3.5–5.5 x 1.2 mm., the inner and outer layers usually so demarcated that the outer appears as a distinct horn up to 0.6 mm long.
Drupes white at first, turning dark red, subglobose, 4–6 mm. in diam. when dry, c. 8.5 mm. when fresh, ribbed (at least in dry state); putamen depressed-subglobose, 4–5 mm. in diam., grooved, ± hairy.
Seeds pale brown, 2–2.4 x 0.9–1 x 0.5–0.6 mm. narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, often with the undeveloped collateral ovule stuck to the testa.
Weak shrub or rarely a small tree, 1.8–6 m. tall; branches pubescent or covered with dense white hairs, later glabrescent.
Style 1–1.25 cm. long in long-styled flowers, 4.3–5.5 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigma lobes 6–8,0.9–2 mm. long.
Inflorescences hairy, up to 4 cm. across; peduncle 0.35–2.2 cm. long; pedicels 0–2.5 mm. long.
Anthers half-exserted in long-styled flowers, well exserted in short-styled flowers.
Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm. long; limb tube 1–2.4 mm. long; lobes 0.3–2.9 x 0.2–1.3 mm.
