Slender shrub to c. 1.5 m, with few branches. Buds enclosed in small cataphylls. Leaves dispersed along the shoots; petiole 0.5-5 cm, channelled above, slightly dilated at the base and with a small to obscure ligule within the petiole; blade 5-15 by 2-5¾ cm, thinly coriaceous to membranous, ovate, elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, base rounded to narrowly cuneate, apex acute, margin entire, often undulate, midrib prominent, sometimes with three distinct principal veins. Umbel terminal, simple, peduncle c. l-2 cm; pedicels 1-2 cm, slightly elongating in fruit, bracts caducous. Flowers sexually dimorphic, males predominate in lateral umbellules. Calyx margin minute. Petals triangular, c. 2.5 mm long. Stamens 5. Ovary 5-6-celled, reduced in male flowers, disk fleshy, conical; styles 5-6, at first erect, but the free upper half spreading in fruit. Fruit globose or ellipsoid, succulent, 5-6-ribbed when dry, c. 10 by 8 mm, crowned by the persistent spreading styles.
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