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Leaf blades 1.5–18 × 1–10 cm, elliptic-ovate to oblong-elliptic, acuminate apically, shallowly and remotely crenate-serrate to subentire on the margins, cuneate to obliquely subcordate at the base, membranaceous to thinly chartaceous, sparingly pubescent along the midrib and main nerves at first, later glabrescent, deep green and glossy on upper surface, paler beneath; lateral nerves in 5–8 pairs, weakly-looped, impressed above, prominent beneath.
Female flowers: pedicels up to 4 mm long; calyx lobes 2(3), c. 1 × 1.5 mm, broadly ovate, rounded, glabrous; disk shallowly 2(3)-lobed; ovary 2-lobed, glabrous; styles 2, fused into a cylindrical column, c. 1 mm high, barely perceptibly 2-lobed at the top, stigmas minute, smooth.
Male inflorescences up to 5 cm long, the peduncle up to 2 cm long, racemose, few-flowered, slender, pubescent; bracts 0.5–1 mm long, filiform, glabrous.
A shrub. It grows 5 m high. The leaves are alternate oval. They taper to the tip. They are 15 cm long by 7 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge.
Petioles 1–1.5 cm long, with 2 minute hemispherical orange-brown glands at the junction with the blade.
Female inflorescences extending to 11 cm in fruit, otherwise resembling the male.
A shrub or slender small tree up to 4.5 m tall, with short spreading branches.
Stipules 0.5 mm long, subulate, not aculeate, scarcely indurate, yellow-brown.
Fruit 3–4 × 4 or 8 mm, didymous, or by abortion subglobose, glabrous.
Seeds c. 4 mm in diameter, muricate-reticulate-rugulose.
Bark pale olive-grey with straw-coloured lenticels.
Young growth pubescent, deep green and glossy.
A forest shrub, 4–15 ft. high.
