Acalypha acrogyna Pax

A shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall, with short and long shoots.. Bark smooth, grey.. Short shoots and young long shoots crisped-puberulous, older long shoots glabrescent.. Petioles up to 2 cm. long but more commonly 3–4 mm. long, densely puberulous; leaf-blade obovate, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, (2–)4–9(–11) cm. long, (1–)2–5 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, acuminate or not, somewhat attenuate toward the obtusely rounded or shallowly cordate base, but never really cuneate, crenate or crenate-serrate, thinly chartaceous, lateral nerves 6–7 pairs, very sparingly pubescent or subglabrous above and beneath, sometimes the midrib and main nerves evenly pubescent, and with dense tufts of hairs in the axils of the main nerves beneath.. Stipules subulate, keeled, 3–4 mm. long, coriaceous, sparingly pubescent.. Inflorescences racemose, borne on the short shoots, (3–)7–8.5(–12) cm. long, either all ♂ with numerous dense clusters of flowers, all ♀ with 1–4 flowers toward and at the apex, or else ♂ with 1 ♀ flower at the apex; axis crisped-puberulous; ♂ and ♀ bracts alike, oblong-ovate, 1 mm. long, entire, ciliate, brownish.. Male flowers shortly pedicellate; buds subglobose, sparingly pubescent.. Female flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate; sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 1 mm. long, acute, ciliate; ovary subtrilobate, 1 mm. diameter, echinate, densely pubescent; styles ± free to the base, 3–4 mm. long, pectinate, red.. Fruits trilobate, 2.5 mm. long, 4 mm. diameter, conspicuously echinate, sparingly pubescent.. Seeds subglobose, 2 mm. long, 1.75 mm. wide, smooth, brown, ecarunculate.