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Leaf blades 1–9(12) × 0.5–4.5(5.5) cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to obtusely acuminate, sometimes emarginate, cuneate-rounded to shallowly cordate at the base, epipetiolar, firmly chartaceous, very sparingly appressed-pubescent along the midrib beneath and otherwise glabrous, more rarely evenly patent-pubescent along the midrib beneath, dark green and shiny above, paler and duller beneath, drying greenish or greyish-green; lateral nerves in 5–8 pairs, brochidodromous, scarcely to slightly prominent above and beneath, bearing acarodomatia in their axils in larger leaves, tertiary nerves reticulate.
Male flowers: pedicels 6–11(15) mm long, sparingly puberulous; buds 3–5 mm long, ellipsoid, rounded at the base; sepals 5–6 × 1–1.5 mm, linear, acute, cucullate, sparingly puberulous without, glabrous within, yellowish-green; petals 1–1.3 mm long, subulate; disk 1.3 mm in diameter, shallowly cupular, slightly pentagonal, glabrous, pink; staminal column 1.5 mm high; anthers 2.5–3 mm long, cream-coloured; pistillode 1 mm high, tripartite, glabrous.
Female flowers: pedicels extending to 3 cm long in fruit, pubescent, reddish; buds 5 mm long, ovoid-conic; sepals and petals ± as in the male; disk 2–2.5 mm in diameter, otherwise as in the male; ovary 3 mm in diameter, globose, glabrous or else densely appressed golden-pubescent; styles 3, 2 mm long, united for 0.5 mm, once bifid, glabrous.
Fruit 7–10 × 9–15 mm, strongly 3-lobed or rarely 4-lobed, ± smooth to slightly rugulose, glabrous or evenly appressed golden-pubescent, greenish to light brown with 6 reddish lines at first, brownish-black when ripe.
Inflorescences up to 12-flowered, either all male or male with 1(2) female flowers; axes less than 1 cm long, appressed-pubescent; bracts c. 1 × 1 mm, ± ovate, caducous.
Bark on trunk dark grey or reddish-brown to blackish, rough, reticulate-striate, fibrous, paler on the branches.
Stipules 4–5 × 1–2 mm, narrowly lanceolate to falcate-lanceolate, sparingly pubescent, membranaceous, fugacious.
A many-stemmed shrub or large tree up to c. 20 m tall with a rounded crown and drooping ultimate branchlets.
Seeds 5 × 4.5 mm, subglobose, smooth, shiny, brownish-pink to dark brown or blackish.
Young shoots and petioles pubescent to subglabrous.
Bole to 3.5 m high, 4 dm in diameter.
Twigs grey, lenticellate.
Petioles 2–7 mm long.
Flowers fragrant.
Wood hard.
