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Female flowers solitary, terminal, pedicellate, the pedicels 3–4 mm long; sepals 5–6, 1–2 mm long, oblong, unequal, obtuse, ciliate; ovary 1 × 1.5 mm, subglobose, scarcely 3-lobed, smooth, glabrous; styles 3, up to 1.5 cm long, united for one fifth of their length, linear-filiform, ± smooth, red or purple.
A deciduous, slender ± erect lax-branched multistemmed shrub to 1.5 m high (when exposed to fire) or small tree up to 7 m high (when fire protected), monoecious, with male and female inflorescences on separate branches.
Male inflorescences up to 3.5 cm long, but usually not exceeding 2.5 cm in length, otherwise resembling those of A. laxiflora.
Bark smooth, shiny, lenticellate, scaling, dark purplish-grey when old, pale grey or whitish when newly exposed.
Seeds 4 × 3 mm, ovoid, shallowly malleate-rugulose or tuberculate, shiny, light brown.
Young shoots and petioles sparingly minutely puberulous or subglabrous.
Fruits 4–5 × 5–6 mm, 3-lobed, smooth, glabrous, green or reddish.
Stipules 2–4 mm long, filiform-setaceous.
Male flowers ± as in A. laxiflora.
Stipels 1 mm long, setaceous.
Petioles 0.5–2.5 cm.
Twigs reddish-brown.
