Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious shrub to 3 m high. Leaves simple, subsessile or with petiole 1–3 mm long; lamina usually obovate, sometimes oblanceolate, cuneate or angular-obovate, rarely spathulate or elliptic, acute, usually tri-dentate or 3-lobed at apex, otherwise entire and revolute, attenuate to broadly cuneate at base, 1.2–3.5 cm long, rarely to 6 cm, 0.6–3 cm wide, pubescent, sometimes on midrib and margin only, rarely glabrous. Flowers solitary or in 3–6-flowered axillary or terminal cymes; pedicels 3.5–10 mm long. Sepals 4, rarely 5, lanceolate, 1.2–3 mm long, persistent. Stamens 6–8. Ovary densely pubescent. Capsule 3-angled, rarely 4-angled, subglobose or broadly obovate in lateral view, 6–9 mm long, 8.5–11.5 mm wide, sparsely pubescent or sometimes glabrous; appendages usually present, lobe-like, usually above middle of capsule only, 1–2 mm wide, crustaceous or coriaceous; dehiscence septifragal, very rarely septicidal.
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