Polygamo-dioecious or polygamous erect shrub, 1–3 m high. Leaves simple, subsessile or petiolate, elliptic, sometimes lanceolate or oblong to oblanceolate, acuminate, acute or obtuse, entire or obscurely sinuate; lamina 3–10.5 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, glabrous; base attenuate and tapering into petiole or cuneate and subsessile; petiole when present 4.5–15 mm long, rarely to 28.5 mm. Flowers in terminal panicles; pedicels 5.5–12 mm long. Sepals 4, lanceolate to ovate, 1.4–2.5 mm long, persistent. Stamens usually 8, rarely 7 or to 10. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-winged, broadly oblong or obovate in lateral view, 13–19 mm long, 14–19 mm wide, glabrous; wings 4.5–5.5 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.
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