Leaves up to 1 cm acuminate, entire or lobed, 5-18 by 3-15 cm; petiole 1-5½ cm. Gland-bearing auricles mostly peltately connate over the top of the petiole. ♂ Flowers including the 5-8 mm long stipe 11-18 by 2-3½ mm. ♀ Flowers including the 1-1½(-2) mm long stipe 6-8 by 2-3 mm. Fruit with obtuse apex, excluding the 3-13 mm long gynophore 4-7 by 2-3 cm; flower stipe below the withered perianth 1-2 mm. Seeds 4-7 mm ø.
Scrub vegetation in a seasonal climate, monsoon forest, 0-150 m, mostly on sandy or calcareous soils near the coast. Fl.fr. (Java) mainly Febr.-May, in Lesser Sunda Is. & Australia March-Dec.
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