A laxly branched dioecious shrub or small tree of untidy habit, up to 9 m. tall.. Bark smooth or rugulose, greyish brown.. Young twigs greyish, striate or angular, lenticellate, minutely puberulous at first but soon glabrescent.. Leaves unifoliolate; leaflet elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 6–32 cm. long, 2–12.5 cm. wide, obtusely acuminate, rounded or cuneate, undulate, coriaceous, midrib scarcely prominent above, prominent beneath, lateral nerves 10–14 pairs, glabrous above and ± so beneath, reddish when young, later becoming dark green and shiny above, drying pale green; petiole 0.5–10 cm. long, somewhat thickened at the base and apex, puberulous at first, later glabrescent.. Stipules linear or narrowly elliptic, (1–)2–12 mm. long, up to 1 mm. wide, sharply acute, glabrous, sometimes 0.. Bracts of the ♂ fascicles numerous, rufous pubescent.. Male flowers: pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long; tepals elliptic, 2–2.5 mm. long, 1–1.25 mm. wide, ± obtuse, pubescent at the apex, yellowish; stamens 11–14, filaments 2 mm. long, glabrous, anthers 1 mm. long; pistillode truncate, shallowly 6-lobed.. Pseudohermaphrodite flowers: pedicels 3–4 mm. long; filaments 4–5 mm. long, anthers 0.5 mm. long, sterile; disc lobulate; ovary subglobose, 3 mm. long and wide, glabrous; styles 1 mm. long.. Female flowers: pedicels 4–6 mm. long, extending to 3 cm. in fruit; tepals oblong, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, glabrous, quickly caducous; disc shallow; ovary subglobose-trilobed, 3 mm. long, 4 mm. diameter, smooth, sparingly pubescent; styles closely approximated, later becoming divaricate-deflexed, stigmas globose-reniform.. Fruits trigonous, 1–1.2 cm. long, 1.2–1.5 cm. diameter, glabrous or subglabrous, smooth, somewhat shiny, reddish or purplish tinged, almost black when dried.. Seeds oblong-triquetrous, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, brown, very shiny.. Fig. 22.
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