Shrub or small tree, 0.75–15 m high. Leaves glabrous; petiole 8–20 mm long; lamina elliptic, broadly elliptic, oblong elliptic or ovate, 8.5–26 cm long, 4–12 cm wide, shortly attenuate to cuneate or sometimes rounded at base, crenate (often irregularly so and mostly in upper half), bluntly acute to obtuse; midrib flattened above, raised and prominent beneath. Male inflorescence axillary, sometimes ramiflorous, to 8.5 cm long, 5–11-flowered; pedicels 15–20 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Male flowers clavate to globose, 2–3 mm high, 1.5–3 mm wide; tepals as 4 pairs around ostiole; stamens as 3 or 4 pairs, sometimes partially fused at base; filaments short to long. Female inflorescence axillary, 3–4.5 (–9) cm long, flowers in single unit of 3, occasionally branched as 3 units each of 3; pedicels 15–18 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Female flowers ± globose, c. 4 mm diam.; outer tepals as 2 pairs around ostiole, with a third pair lower on receptacle; carpels 9–13; ovary ± cuneate, c. 1.5 mm high, covered with short dense, appressed hairs; stigma hemispherical. Fruiting receptacle swollen, orange to bright red. Drupes globose to ovoid, 12–16 mm long, 10–13 mm wide, black or dark blue.
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