Shrub up to 10 m tall. Innovations glabrous. Leaves oblong, elliptic-oblong, or broad-ovate; base obtuse or rounded, sometimes acute; apex acute or obtuse; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 1—2⅓ cm. Panicles terminal, up to 20 cm, divaricately branching, usually thrice compound. Pedicels c. 0.5 mm (c. 1 mm on fruits), distinctly articulated. Male: calyx lobes subreniform, slightly erose, c. 1 mm long. Petals oblong, obtuse, subentire, scarious-marginate, 2.5 by 1.5 mm, subcarnose, sometimes brownish-punctate. Disk cup-shaped, membranous, lobes obscure, truncate or mucronate. Stamens subsessile or with very short flat filaments; anthers narrow-ovoid, obtuse, apiculate, brownish-dotted; sterile pistil 1 mm long. Female: calyx lobes, petals, and disk as in the male. Sterile stamens 1 mm long. Pistil c. 1.5 mm long; ovary subglobose; style obsolete; stigmas 3-lobed, each bifid. Fruits subglobose, the valves broadly ovate, 9-12 by 7-10 mm, 3-6-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, 5-8 mm by 2½-3½ mm, reddish-brown, smooth.
In thickets or forests, usually at 1220-1830 m, sometimes found in the forest at 2400-2900 m, rarely occurring along river-banks at 100 m.
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