Shrub or small tree 5–7 m high. Leaves pubescent; petiole 5–10 mm long; lamina elliptic, 4.5–12 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, shortly attenuate or cuneate to rounded at base, entire to shallowly serrate mainly in upper two-thirds, mostly acute, sometimes bluntly so at apex, occasionally obtuse; midrib flattened above, raised and prominent beneath. Male inflorescence axillary, sometimes in more branched terminal clusters, 1.5–3 cm long, 3–5-flowered; pedicels 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent. Male flowers globose, 3–4 mm diam.; tepals 6, with 2 pairs over ostiole and 1 pair lower on receptacle; stamens as 2 (3) pairs; filaments densely pubescent. Female inflorescence 1.5–3 cm long, (3–) 5 (–7)-flowered; pedicels 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent. Female flowers globose, 3–4 mm diam.; outer tepals as 2 pairs; carpels 15–30; ovary cuneate, densely pubescent with ± appressed golden hairs; stigma conical or elongate hemispherical. Fruiting receptacle slightly swollen, pale orange. Drupes ovoid, 10–14 mm long, 9–11 mm wide, purplish black.
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