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Male flowers with calyx 6–10 mm. long, infundibuliform, prominently nerved, hairy or villous outside, pubescent inside, irregularly dentate; corolla white to yellow, glabrous, tube as long as the calyx, cylindrical, limb c. 15 mm. in diam. with 5 lobes 5–8(10) x 2–3(4) mm., narrowly obovate, crisped, truncate or sometimes bilobed at apex; stamens 5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, filaments 4.0–5.0 mm. long, slender, villous to the base, anthers 2.0–2.5 mm. long, oblong; ovary vestigial, without style.
Fruit up to 27 x 16 mm. when dry, ovoid or elliopsoid, apiculate, glabrous; fruiting calyx enlarged up to 20 mm. long and 25 mm. in diam. at the mouth, with the margin folded and revolute, eroded and usually fallen at maturity, slightly ribbed; mesocarp fibrous; pyrene c. 15 mm. long, ± circular in cross section, 1-seeded.
Female flowers similar to the male ones but with filaments c. 2.5 mm. long and sterile anthers c. 1.5 mm. long; ovary c. 1.5 mm. long, cylindric-conical, glabrous; style c. 10 mm. long, first branched at c. 4 mm. and with stigmatic branches 3–6 mm. long, linear, flattened, papillose.
Multiple-stemmed shrub, sometimes scrambling, or small tree up to 10(15) m. high, dioecious, deciduous; branches angular-ribbed and densely hairy when young, glabrescent and with a little prominent leaf-scars.
Cymes arranged in usually subsessile, short, ± contracted terminal panicles; rhachis and branches densely villous.
Flowers male or female, on pedicels 0.5–3.0 mm. long, villous.
