Shrubs, evergreen, to 8(-11) m tall. Bark gray-brownish. Branchlets of current year sparsely yellow-brownish stellate-pubescent, glabrescent; branchlets of previous year gray-whitish or brown, terete, glabrous, with sparse, small, rounded lenticels. Winter buds ovoid-lanceolate, with a pair of separate scales; scales stellate-pubescent. Leaves always opposite, not clustered at apices of branchlets; stipules absent; petiole green, slender, 1-2 cm, glabrous; leaf blade green when young, broadly elliptic to oblong or oblong-obovate, 7-15 × 3-4.5 cm, subleathery, abaxially very sparsely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, midvein raised abaxially, lateral veins 5-or 6-jugate, pinnate, arched, rarely branched, anastomosing near margin, raised abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, veinlets transverse, slightly raised abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, not lobed, base narrowed and ± decurrent, without glands, margin serrate except at base, apex shortly acuminate. Flowers appearing after leaves; inflorescence a compound umbel-like or panicle-like cyme, terminal, 4-7 cm in diam.; rays whorled; first node of inflorescence with 4-6 rays, unequal in length, lax, stellate-pubescent, without large sterile radiant flowers; peduncles 2-5 cm; bracts caducous, leaflike, green, linear-lanceolate, glabrous; bracteoles scalelike. Flowers on rays of 2nd and 3rd orders, fragrant, shortly pedicellate. Calyx greenish; tube obconical, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; lobes triangular-ovate, slightly shorter than calyx tube, glabrous, apex obtuse. Corolla white, rotate, ca. 5 mm in diam., glabrous; tube ca. 1.5 mm; lobes spreading, broadly ovate, subequaling tube, apex obtuse, margin entire. Stamens slightly exceeding corolla, inserted at base of corolla; filaments ca. 3 mm; anthers yellow, broadly elliptic, ca. 1 mm. Styles slightly exceeding calyx lobes; stigmas capitate. Fruit initially turning red, maturing black, broadly ellipsoid, 6-8(-10) × 3-4 mm, base rounded, apex acute, glabrous; pyrenes broadly ellipsoid or oblong-obovoid, ca. 6 × 3 mm, with 2 dorsal grooves and 1 broad, deep ventral groove, apex rounded. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Aug-Dec.
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Shrub or small tree, up to 10 m, usually much lower. Youngest parts thinly stellate-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, upperside glabrous, underside thinly stellate-pubescent to almost glabrous, very variable in shape, broad-elliptic, ovate or oblong-elliptic, up to 18 by 10 cm, apex short-acuminate, base nearly rounded to cuneate, margins in upper ⅔ coarsely crenate-serrate to finely serrate, teeth shortly mucronate, lower ⅓ entire or superficially dentate; nervation rather prominent beneath; primary nerves 5-8 on each side, indistinctly anastomosing; petioles 1-2 cm. Inflorescence terminal or spuriously lateral, paniculate, short-pyramidal, 5-9 cm across, 5-7(-10) cm long; axes stellate-pubescent, glabrescent; primary branches 4-7, verticillate. Bracts and bracteoles minute, stellate-pubescent. Flowers somewhat fragrant, 4-5 mm wide. Calyx-teeth ovate-triangular, ¾ mm long. Corolla globular in bud, nearly rotate (only slightly campanulate) when open, creamy white, glabrous, tube ¾-1 mm, lobes ovate, rounded, 1 ¼-1½(-2) mm. Stamens somewhat ex-serted, filaments inserted near base of corolla, in bud with inflexed top, white, 2-3 mm; anthers elliptic, sordidly white, 1 mm. Ovary cylindric, glabrous, 1-1½ mm long. Drupe oblong-ellipsoid, somewhat oblique, slightly compressed, ripening purplish-black, 7-10 by 4-5 mm (rarely 11-12 by 7-8 mm: Borneo, Malay Penins.). Endocarp undulate in cross-section, with 2 dorsal and 1 ventral groove.
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