Erect shrub to 2.5 m high, dioecious or sometimes monoecious. Branches stout with scurfy sheen. Leaves thick, shortly petiolate; lamina narrowly to broadly ovate, 25–60 mm long, entire, with a thick soft scurfy sheen on both surfaces. Male flowers in dense glomerules c. 4 mm diam. forming ± continuous terminal spikes or panicles. Female flowers in terminal leafless panicles and in mixed panicles. Fruiting bracteoles hard, sessile or with a short hard turbinate stipe, broadly deltoid or broadly triangular, free to near base, 4–8 mm long and wide, entire, centre thick and convex with 2–4 tubercular processes or rarely smooth. Seed circular; radicle lateral, erect.
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