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Inflorescences in axils of the upper leaves, 1.5–2 cm long, shortly pedunculate, densely flowered; bracts c. 1 mm across, broadly ovate, imbricate, obtuse.
Female flowers: sepals suborbicular-ovate, obtuse or subacute, otherwise ± as in the male flowers; ovary 3-lobed, smooth; styles 3, connate at the base.
Male flowers: sepals 3, minute, lanceolate, acute, greenish-white to yellowish; stamens 1 mm long, anthers 0.5 mm long.
Stipules 2.5 mm long, triangular-ovate, acute, soon falling; scars overlapping.
A shrub or small lax tree 1–4 m tall with a white poisonous latex, monoecious.
Seeds 4 mm in diameter, globose, smooth, greyish-brown, mottled darker brown.
Fruit 10 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, smooth, green at first, later reddish.
Bark dark brown or blackish, ± smooth or finely reticulate.
Petioles 5–8 mm long, adaxially canaliculate.
Leaves opposite.
