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Female inflorescences consist of a 3–5 mm long axis with 4–6 pairs of decussate scale-like bracts with prominent midvein, c. 3 × 2 mm, and one terminal female flower, at anthesis with perianth and ovary almost completely enclosed by upper bracts; protruding stigmas c. 3 mm long.
Shrub or small tree, up to at least 8 m high; twigs with yellow-green fissured bark and alternate lines running down from each petiole, internodes 3–5 cm long, some scale-like bracts often present above the leaves on the younger stems, perhaps from rudimentary inflorescences.
Male inflorescences with shorter axis than female, with 2–3 pairs of decussate scale-like bracts; male flowers apparently all terminal; perianth 4-merous; stamens 4, with sessile or subsessile anthers, 2–3 mm long; no pistillode present.
Mature fruits brown,7–10 × 6–8 mm, turbinate, excluding the three c. 8 mm long persisting style bases, with faintly verrucose exocarp and detaching endocarp.
Inflorescences (only very few seen) unisexual, axillary or slightly above leaf-insertion.
Juvenile individuals with very closely set linear leaves, c. 2.5 × 0.2 cm.
Seeds dark brown, slightly curved, c. 5 × 2 × 2 mm.
