A shrub or small tree to 6 m tall, monoecious or sometimes dioecious.Twigs dark purplish-grey.Young growth stellate-hirsute.Stipules up to 7 mm long, filiform, soon falling.Petioles 1–4 cm long.Leaf blades 4–12 × 2–9 cm, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, somewhat irregularly serrulate on the margin, wide-cuneate to rounded or truncate at the base, with a pair of shortly-stipitate or subsessile discoid basal glands on the lower surface, chartaceous, sparingly stellate-pubescent on upper surface, evenly to densely so beneath; 5–7-nerved from the base, lateral nerves in 3–4 pairs, slightly prominent beneath.Racemes 4–7 cm long, terminal, few-flowered, usually androgynous, sometimes male; bracts resembling the stipules.Male flowers: pedicels 5–6 mm long; sepals 5, 2.5 × 2 mm, ovate, stellate-pubescent without, glabrous within, greenish; petals 5, 2.5 × 1.5 mm, obovate-spathulate, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, cream-coloured; disk glands 5, rounded-subtruncate, fleshy, pubescent; stamens 15, filaments 2 mm long, glabrous, anthers 1.25 mm long, orange-yellow; receptacle villous.Female flowers: pedicels 2–3 mm long, extending to 1.5–2 cm in fruit; sepals 5, 3 × 2 mm, accrescent to 10 × 5 mm in fruit, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, subacute, becoming foliaceous, with a midrib and 2–3 pairs of lateral nerves, sparingly stellate-pubescent without, subglabrous within, green; petals absent; disk shallowly 5-lobed, the lobes alternating with the sepals, rounded, puberulous; ovary 2 mm in diameter, trilobate-subglobose, densely fulvous stellate-tomentose; styles 3, 3–4 mm long, divaricate, deeply 2-partite, the segments filiform, sparingly stellate-pubescent basally, apically subglabrous.Fruits 5 × 7 mm, trilobate-subglobose, septicidal, evenly scurfily and sparingly patent stellate-pubescent.Seeds 4.5 × 3 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, smooth, shiny, dark brown; caruncle 1 mm wide.
