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Evergreen shrub or small tree, dioecious, up to 4 m in height, upright in habit, very branched, not broom-like, with trunk up to 10 cm in diameter. Brownish bark, fissured. Branches striated longitudinally, the older ones brown-greyish, young ones greenish, glabrous. Leaves (15-45 \u00d7 3-16 mm), lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute, mucronate, attenuate at the base, entire, subcoriaceous, glaucous, glabrous, sessile, alternate, persistent. Male inflorescence in axillary cymes 0.8-4 cm, with 5-15 flowers. Female inflorescences shorter, 2-3 flowers, often solitary. Male flowers with very short receptacle (1.5-2.5 mm), greenish; female flowers with longer receptacle, campanulate-tubiform (3-5 mm); both have 3 tepals (rarely 4) oval-triangular, 1.2-1.5 mm, green outside and yellow inside. Stamens 3, yellowish. Quite often there are tetramerous flowers. Fruit a globose drupe, 6-10 mm, orange in colour. 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