A shrub up to 4 m high, monoecious.Twigs greyish-brown.Young growth densely rusty-lepidote.Stipules 1–2 mm long, triangular-subulate.Petioles 3–5 mm long.Leaf blades 2–10 × 1–3.5 cm, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, entire, rounded to cordulate at the base, with a pair of shortly-stipitate or sessile basal glands at the petiole apex, membranaceous, evenly minutely stellate-pubescent and green on the upper surface, silvery-lepidote and faintly brown-flecked beneath; lateral nerves in 10–18 pairs, not or scarcely prominent above or beneath.Racemes 3–5 cm long, slender, terminal on short lateral shoots, mostly male with 1–2 female flowers at the base; bracts resembling the stipules.Male flowers: pedicels 7 mm long, slender; sepals 5, 2 × 1.5 mm, ovate, lepidote without, glabrous within, white; petals 5, 2 × 0.5 mm, narrowly oblanceolate, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, white; disk 5-lobed, the lobes truncate; stamens 16, filaments 1 mm long, pubescent, anthers 0.75 mm long.Female flowers: pedicels 3–8 mm long, stouter than in the male, densely lepidote; sepals 5, 2 × 1 mm, elliptic, lepidote without, minutely puberulous within near the apex; petals absent; disk crenellate, thin, flat; ovary 2 mm in diameter, globose, densely lepidote; styles 3–4, 2–2.5 mm long, suberect, deeply 4-partite with filiform segments, lepidote at the base, otherwise glabrous, purplish.Fruits 7 × 7–8 mm, very slightly trilobate or quadrilobate-subglobose, septicidal, evenly lepidote.Seeds 6 × 4 × 3 mm, somewhat compressed-ellipsoid, smooth, slightly shiny, pale greyish-brown; caruncle c. 1.5 mm wide, shallowly convex.
