Dioecious small tree (4-5 m by 4-5 cm), lax shrub (up to 3 m) or liana. Branchlets densely fulvous-tomentose (sometimes rather shaggy) to glabrous, purple-brown. Leaves (elliptic to) lanceolate, (8-) 10-14 by 1.5-3(-5) cm, pubescent on both sides, especially beneath, and along the margin; glands few, small, on the lower surface near the base; base slightly oblique, acute to rounded; apex usually long tapering, blunt, mucronate; nerves 6-10 pairs, strongly curved, the apical ones distinctly interarching; intermediate veins distinctly developed. Inflorescences glomerulous, ½-1 cm long, with c. 5 flowers, shaggy pilose. Flowers (female unknown) 4 mm. Petals obovate, 3 mm long, 0.5 mm incised, outside with some long hairs near the base (on margin and midrib). Disk-lobes 0.25 mm high, slightly cordate, glabrous. Pistilloid densely woolly pubescent. Fruits usually solitary, short-stalked, (1-)3-lobed, broad-obovate, c. 1.5 by 1.5 cm, densely minutely fulvous pubescent, more or less glabrescent, sutures distinct.
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