An erect or semi-scandent shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall, but more commonly to 3.5 m.. Bark light grey or brown, flaking.. Twigs pale grey-green, not prominently sparingly lenticellate.. Young shoots and petioles evenly pubescent, soon glabrescent.. Petioles (2–)3–9 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, (1–)3–7.5(–12) cm. long, (0.5–)1–3(–5) cm. wide, obtuse or sometimes subacute at the apex, cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate, often irregularly so, chartaceous, brittle, lateral nerves 5–7 pairs, commonly looped well within the margin, sometimes not looped, not prominent above, slightly so below, sparingly pubescent or puberulous along the midrib and main nerves above and beneath at first, later becoming quite glabrous, dark green, paler beneath, often purplish tinged at first.. Stipules aculeolate, 2 mm. long, straight or hooked, pungent, slightly accrescent, yellowish.. Male inflorescences densely glomerulate, sessile or shortly pedunculate, 0.5–1.5 cm. long; peduncles pubescent or glabrous; bracts minute, ciliate.. Male flowers: pedicels slender, flexuous, extending to 1.2 cm. at anthesis, glabrous; calyx-lobes 3(–4), triangular-ovate, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acute, glabrous, greenish cream; extrastaminal disc-glands 7, small, rounded, distinct, glabrous; interstaminal glands numerous, erect, angular, truncate, glabrous, dark green; stamens 9–15, 5–7 peripheral, 4–8 central, 0.5 mm. long, filaments broadened in the middle, purple-grey, anthers white or cream.. Female inflorescences fewer-flowered than ♂, but otherwise similar.. Female flowers: pedicels 2–4 mm. long, stouter than in ♂; calyx-lobes smaller than in ♂, minutely ciliolate; disc-glands 3, ovate, flattened, scale-like; ovary trilobate, 1 mm. diameter, evenly adpressed pubescent; styles free, 1 mm. long, reflexed, stigmas fimbriate-laciniate throughout, white.. Fruit tricoccous, or by abortion dicoccous, the cocci 3.5–4 mm. diameter, sparingly adpressed pubescent, greenish or purplish.. Seeds 3–3.5 mm. diameter, shallowly foveolate-reticulate, aril orange-yellow or red.
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A shrub or small tree. It can be erect or laying over. It grows 3.5 m tall. The bark is pale grey and flaking. They young branches are grey-green and hairy when young. The leaves are simple and alternate. The leaf blades are oval and 3-8 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. Tress are separately male or female. The flowers are in a head. The fruit have 3 separate sections. These are about 4 mm across. They can be green or purple. There is one seed in each section.
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