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Stamens (and staminodes in female flowers) 4, inserted at c. 1 mm. from the top of the corolla tube; anthers 1.7–1.8 mm. long, oblong (in female flowers 0.8 mm. long, sterile); filaments c. 5 mm. long, very slender, glabrous (in female flowers c. 2 mm. long).
A shrub or small tree up to 8 m. high, probably dioecious; branches angular, slender, pubescent, cream or grey, becoming brown or greyish-brown and lenticellate with age, with prominent leaf-scars.
Ovary c. 1.5 mm. long, cylindric-conical, glabrous (in male flowers vestigial); style 7–8 mm. long, first-forked at c. 2.5 mm. and with stigmatic branches c. 2.5 mm. long, clavate.
Corolla yellowish, glabrous outside, densely hairy at the throat inside; tube as long as the calyx, cylindrical; lobes 4, 4–5 x 1.7 mm., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse.
Inflorescence a panicle 5–11 cm. long, slender, lax, long pedunculate, terminal but apparently axillary, with peduncle, rhachis and branches shortly hispid.
Calyx (5)6–7 mm. long, cylindrical or trumpet-shaped, irregularly 3–5-toothed, with short, ± dense appressed hairs outside, densely clothed inside.
Flowers male & female, on pedicels up to 2 mm. long.
Fruit not seen.
