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Leaf blades 2–13 × 1–7 cm, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acutely acuminate apically, shallowly and somewhat remotely glandular-crenate or crenate-serrate to subentire on the margins, wide-cuneate or rounded with 1–6 small hemispherical orange glands at the base, membranous, sparingly pubescent along the midrib and main nerves at first, but soon glabrescent, drying purplish-black when young, or at least the midrib and nerves drying purplish when more mature; lateral nerves in 4–7 pairs, the lower ones ascending, weakly-looped, not prominent.
Male flowers: pedicels 2–4 mm long, slender, glabrous, jointed near the base; buds c. 2 mm in diameter, oblate, glabrous; calyx lobes 3, c. 2 × 2 mm, broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse, green or purplish-tinged; disk glands mostly 12, clavate, ± truncate, 6 alternating with stamens of the outer whorl, but scarcely extrastaminal, the rest interstaminal, glabrous or crowned with papillae, purplish; stamens 14–17, c. 1 mm long, filaments stout, pinkish-purple, anthers 0.5 mm across, pink.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m high. The bark is thin and grey with slight cracks. The branches arch over. The leaves are oval and alternate. They are 13 cm long by 7 cm wide. They are dark green. The base is rounded with small orange glands. There are irregular teeth along the edge. The male and female flowers are on separate trees. They are green/ The fruit have 2 lobes and are 5-9 mm across. The seed has a red covering.
Female flowers: pedicels 2–6 mm long, thick, jointed near the middle; calyx lobes 2–3, c. 1 × 1 mm, triangular, acute, glabrous, pale green; disk glands 2–3, 0.5 × 0.7 mm, scale-like, rounded, glabrous; ovary usually c. 1 mm in diameter, 2-lobed, glabrous, drying blackish; styles 2–3, c. 1 mm long, united at the base, divaricate, stigmas papillose-lobulate.
Male inflorescences 1–4 cm long, the peduncles up to 3 cm long, racemose; bracts c. 1 mm long, narrowly triangular-lanceolate to linear, fugacious.
Female inflorescences up to 5.5 cm long, racemose, few-flowered, subglabrous; bracts minute, broadly triangular.
Seeds 4 mm in diameter, foveolate-reticulate, aril bright orange or scarlet, drying reddish-purple.
Fruit 4–5 × 8–9 mm, usually dicoccous, glabrous, green at first, drying purplish or reddish.
Stipules 0.5–0.7 mm long, subulate, not or scarcely aculeate and hardened, yellowish-brown.
Young growth sparingly pubescent to subglabrous.
Bark grey, thin, slightly fissured at the base.
A shrub or small tree up to 10 m high.
Twigs pale greyish-brown or whitish.
Petioles 0.5–1.5 cm long.
