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Male flowers: pedicels 4–5 mm long; sepals 5, 2 × 1.5 mm, ovate, lepidote without, glabrous within, pale yellowish-green; petals 5, 2.5 × 0.75 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblong, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, pale yellowish-cream; disk glands 5, truncate, fleshy, glabrous; stamens 15, filaments 2 mm long, glabrous except at the base, anthers 0.5 mm long with a broad connective, pale yellow; receptacle pilose.
Female flowers: pedicels 2–4 mm long, stouter than in the male, densely lepidote; sepals 5, c. 2 × 1 mm, triangular-ovate, otherwise as in the male; petals absent; disk 5-lobed, the lobes truncate, glabrous; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, subglobose, densely yellowish-lepidote; styles 3, 2–3 mm long, erect or spreading, deeply 2-partite, the segments linear-filiform, glabrous, pale green or dull purple.
Leaf blades 1–9.2 × 0.5–4 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, entire, rounded to shallowly cordate at the base, with a pair of minute stipitate basal glands beneath, thinly chartaceous, sparingly stellate-pubescent and dark green on upper surface, silvery or yellowish-lepidote beneath, bright orange on dying; lateral nerves in 7–12 pairs, slightly prominent beneath.
Shrub or small tree, up to 3 m high. Undersurface of leaves distinctly silvery, produced by dense scales, upper surface roughish to the touch, stellate-puberu-lous. Flowers yellow.
Seeds 4–5.5 × 3 × 2.5 mm, oblong-ovoid, smooth, shiny, grey, sometimes mottled blackish; caruncle 2–2.5 mm wide, somewhat convex, pale yellow.
Fruits 6–7 × 6–8 mm, subglobose-trigonous, septicidal, densely lepidote, pale silvery-green or cream-green, sometimes black-speckled.
Racemes 1–6 cm long, terminal on short lateral shoots, androgynous or all male; bracts c. 1 mm long.
A much-branched shrub or small tree up to 4 m tall, monoecious or sometimes dioecious.
Stipules 1 mm long, subulate, lepidote, soon falling.
Young twigs densely stellate-lepidote.
Bark smooth, brownish-grey.
Petioles 2–10 mm long.
