Shrub or small tree 1.8–3 m tall with reddish brown slightly flaky bark, probably always dioecious; stems often rather straggling, slender, reddish brown, densely shortly ferruginous-pubescent; internodes short; branchlets spreading.. Leaves paler beneath, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 0.7–3.3 cm long, 0.5–2.3 cm wide, subacute at apex but tip rounded, rounded at the base, glabrous save for few hairs on midrib beneath, densely gland-dotted beneath; petiole 1.5–2.5 mm long, slightly pubescent.. Flowers sweetly scented, female nearly always solitary, males in 1–5-flowered fascicles; peduncle absent; pedicels 0.3–1.2(–1.6) cm long, glabrous to densely pubescent; bracteoles 0.8 mm long.. Calyx purplish green; tube narrow, 1–2 mm long; lobes 4, ovate or elliptic, 1.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, ciliate, densely covered with small raised orange-red opaque glands.. Petals 4, white tinged pink or purplish, ± round or elliptic, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, with similar glands to calyx.. Stamens ± 38 in male flowers; filaments 1.2–2 mm long; anthers 0.6 mm long, the connective with a few glands.. Style 4.8 mm long in female flowers but reduced to 2 vestiges 0.8 mm long in male flower.. Disc ± glabrous.. Fruit pink or red, ellipsoid, 9 mm long, 7 mm wide, crowned by disc and calyx-lobe bases.. Fig. 13.
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