Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious erect shrub to 3 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, erect, narrowly elliptic, rarely oblanceolate or linear, acute, rarely mucronate, entire or denticulate, sometimes dentate, revolute; lamina 5.5–10 cm long, rarely to 13.5 cm, 0.5–1.3 cm wide, glabrous; attenuate at base, extending as a rib or small wing down the stem. Flowers in axillary cymes; pedicels 3–8.5 mm long, rarely to 14 mm. Sepals 4, lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary pubescent. Capsule 3-or 4-winged, depressed-obovate to transversely oblong in lateral view, 5.5–8 mm long, 17–25 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; wing 7–10 mm wide, rarely as narrow as 4.5 mm, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.
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