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Indumentum of multicellular simple and branched eglandular crispate hairs and shorter gland–tipped hairs (scarcely visible with a hand–lens). Young stems, petioles and inflorescences sparsely to densely whitish– or pale brownish–crispate–pilose.
Plants dioecious; flowers pale green, pentamerous, borne in axillary 3–1 l(13)–flowered umbels or subumbellate racemes; peduncles 5–10 mm. long, pedicels 1–5–3 mm. long.
Female flower: anthers triangular, functionless; filaments 1–1·5 mm. long; gynoecium with subglobose ovary 1 mm. long and slender, shortly 2–lobed style c. 2 mm. long.
Male flowers: anthers c. 0·5 mm. long, elliptic or ovate, red; filaments 2·5–3 mm. long, attached to base of corolla; gynoecium rudimentary.
Fruit c. 4 mm. in diameter, purple, subglobose, faintly longitudinally ribbed when dry, subtended by the persistent reflexed sepals.
Petals almost free, c. 3 mm. long, narrowly oblong–acute, densely papillose on adaxial surface.
Calyx cup–shaped, sepals 1·5 mm. long, almost free, triangular.
Seed globose with deep basal cavity.
Bark of older twigs pinkish–grey.
Shrub or small tree 1–5 m. high.
