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Leaf blades 2–10 × 1–6 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acutely to obtusely acuminate at the apex, subentire to coarsely and usually remotely serrate-dentate on the margin, cuneate, rounded or truncate at the base usually with 2–4 subulate stipelliform glands at or near the base, membranous at first, later thinly chartaceous, sparingly softly pubescent on upper surface, especially on the midrib and main nerves, more evenly so beneath, yellowish-green; lateral nerves in 4–5 pairs, ascending, looped or not, not prominent.
Male flowers: pedicels slender, flexuous, lengthening to c. 5 mm at anthesis, sparingly pubescent; buds 1 mm in diameter, ovoid-conic, apiculate, evenly pubescent; calyx lobes 4–5, 1–1.2 × 0.5–0.8 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pale yellowish-green, translucent; extrastaminal disk of 8–9 unequal free or irregularly-fused glands, glabrous or with 1–2 hairs each; interstaminal glands (0)1–2, rarely more, subglobose to subclavate; stamens 2–3(5), rarely more, subsessile, anthers less than 0.5 mm across.
A straggly shrub. It grows 1-3 m high. It has a lose open crown. The bark is pale grey, smooth and flaking. The wood is soft. Young growth has soft hairs. The leaf blades are 2-10 cm long by 1-6 cm wide. They are oval or sword shaped. The male flower clusters are 1-5 cm long. The female flower clusters are 1-3 cm long. The fruit are 4 mm long by 9 mm wide. It can have 3 lobes. They are red when ripe. The seeds are 3-4 mm across.
Female flowers: pedicels 1–2 mm long, pubescent; calyx lobes 3(4), 1–1.5 × 1–1.2 mm, suborbicular-ovate, subacute or obtuse, sparingly pubescent without, glabrous within, pale green; disk glands 3, 0.5 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous; ovary 1 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, evenly puberulous; styles 3, c. 1 mm long, united only at the base, spreading or recurved, stigmas laciniate.
Shrub, up to 3 m high. Leaf blade shallowly and remotely denticulate, firmly membranous to thinly chartaceous. Stamens 2-8. Stigmas laciniate; ovary 3-lobate, sparingly strigose to glabrous. Flowers green.
Male inflorescences 1–5 cm long, with the peduncle up to 2 cm long, interruptedly racemose to subglomerulate; bracts 0.5 mm long, triangular-ovate, ciliate.
Fruit 4 × 9 mm, generally tricoccous, rarely di-or monococcous by abortion, sparingly pubescent, rarely subglabrous, pale green at first, darker later.
Female inflorescences 1–3 cm long, with the peduncle up to 2.5 cm long, simply racemose, few-flowered.
Stipules 1–2.5 mm long, subulate-filiform, not or scarcely aculeate and hardened, yellowish-brown.
Branches not usually exceeding 4 cm in diameter at the base.
A straggly subshrub 0.5–3 m tall with a loose, open crown.
Seeds 3–4 mm in diameter, reticulate, aril reddish-orange.
Young growth softly puberulous or pilose.
Twigs pale grey, white-lenticellate.
Bark pale grey, smooth, flaking.
Petioles 1–6 mm long.
Wood soft.
