Shrubs or small trees, 3-5 m tall, dioecious. Branchlets gray puberulent. Stipules lanceolate, 5-6 mm, pilose; petiole 8-20 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate, 9-20 × 8-20 cm, papery, abaxially puberulent, base subcordate, with 4 glands, stipels filiform, ca. 3 mm, pilose, margins serrulate, apex acuminate or cuspidate; basal veins 3. Male inflorescences 1-3 at leafless node, unbranched, puberulent; bracts triangular, 1-2 mm. Male flowers 9-11 per bract; pedicel ca. 1.5 mm; sepals 3, ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, subglabrous; stamens 8. Female inflorescences terminal, unbranched, 6-8 cm, puberulent; bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm. Female flowers: pedicel ca. 2 mm; sepals 5 or 6, lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm, puberulent, one with basal gland; ovary globose, tomentulose; styles 3, filiform, 6-8 mm, connate for ca. 1 mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. 10 mm in diam., tomentulose. Seeds compressed-ovoid, ca. 7 mm, rugose. Fl. Apr-Aug.
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