A shrub or small tree reaching 18 ft. in height, slightly branched; branchlets slender, ultimate branchlets about 1 lin. thick with internodes varying very much in length (3/4–2 1/2 in.), surface grey- or reddish-brown, the younger parts and petioles bearing short whitish hooked hairs. Leaves varying considerably in size and shape, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, more rarely oblanceolate-oblong, apex more or less abruptly acuminate, generally more or less grossly dentate below the cusp the toothing extending sometimes half-way down the leaf, base unequal, obtuse to rounded, 2 1/2–10 in. long, 1 1/4–4 in. wide, membranous, shining above, paler beneath, glabrous; lateral nerves 7–12 on each side, ascending and uniting within the margin, impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 2–5 lin. long. Stipules triangular-acuminate, 3–5 1/2 lin. long, somewhat persistent. Inflorescences 1–4 on a short axillary branch, densely covered with short whitish hooked hairs; peduncles 2 lin. or less in length, becoming dilated above into a top-shaped receptacle. Receptacle 3–4 lin. in diam., bordered with numerous short bluntly rounded lobes. Male flowers 2-androus, the 2 short blunt perianth-lobes densely pubescent on the outside; filaments dilated above into a broad suborbicular connective on the inner face of which the separate broadly oval anther-halves are borne. Perianth-tube of female flower similar in pubescence to the male perianth; projecting style-arms 1 lin. long, linear, recurved. Receptacle with ripe fruit subglobose, 5 lin. in diam.
