Shrub or small tree 1–6 m high. Leaves glabrous; petiole 3–10 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic to broadly elliptic, 7–21 cm long, 2–9 cm wide, acute or sometimes rounded at base, crenate to serrate at margin, acute to acuminate, sometimes blunt at apex; midrib flattened to slightly raised above, raised and prominent beneath. Male inflorescence axillary, often several clustered together, c. 10–15 mm long, 3–5-flowered; pedicels c. 10 mm long, glabrous. Male flowers globose to depressed-globose, 2.5–3 mm diam.; tepals 6, with 2 pairs around ostiole and 1 pair lower on receptacle; stamens 4 in 2 pairs; filaments of inner pair longer than outer pair. Female inflorescence axillary or terminal, usually of a single flower (sometimes 2 or 3), 10–25 mm long; pedicels 10–20 mm long, glabrous. Female flowers globose to depressed-globose, c. 3–5 mm high and 4–5 mm diam.; outer tepals as 3 pairs; carpels 8–20; ovary angled, c. 1.5 mm high, glabrous; stigma flat to slightly hemispherical. Fruiting receptacle enlarged, yellow to orange. Drupes ovoid, 10–18 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, purple-black or black.
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