Resembling A. venosum, but with leaves more narrowly elliptic-oblong and more obviously acutely acuminate, the leaf lower surface often yellowish and with an indumentum less dense and never really tomentose except on very young leaves; the basal lateral nerves camptodromous, running further up the leaf blade at a smaller angle from the midrib; the female inflorescences never deformed; the calyx of female flowers lobed to the middle; the fruits only 3–5 × 2–3.5 mm when dried and only slightly compressed.
A shrub or tree, up to 40 ft. high
Flowers yellowish-green
Ripe fruits blackish