Stems suberect from a woody base, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, much-branched, thinly puberulous and sparingly armed with stinging hairs. Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, ascending, firmly membranous, lanceolate, obtuse with mucronulate tip, base shortly cuneate, or rounded, margin sparingly serrate towards the apex, elsewhere entire, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 1/3 in. wide, very sparingly shortly setose on the nerves on both surfaces and along the margins, otherwise glabrous; petiole 0–2 lin. long, sparingly setose and bristly; stipules lanceolate, under 1 lin. long, rigid, reflexed, glabrous or sparingly shortly setose. Racemes 1-sexual, diœcious, terminal on stem and branches and below leaf-opposed; male racemes 6–10 in. long, with a naked peduncle 2 in. long, thinly puberulous and sparingly bristly like the rhachis; flowers very numerous, rather remote throughout; pedicels shortly pilose, solitary to their bracts or the lowest geminate, not longer than the bracts; bracts lanceolate, 1 lin. long, sparingly pilose; female racemes not seen. Male sepals 3, wide-ovate, sparingly shortly pilose. Stamens 3; filaments considerably longer than the anthers.