Small tree with villose young branches and leaves. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils. ?Dioecious. Receptacle of male flower ovoid, with a large ostiole surrounded by 3 decussate pairs of tepals. Stamens c. 24, inserted over the inner surface of the receptacle, anthers opening by two vertical slits; filament short. Receptacle of female flower turbinate, with c. 5 decussate pairs of tepals (the inner swollen and glandular) and with 2-3 pairs of bracts at its base or on the lower outer surface, the upper part abscissing as a calyptra after anthesis, inner surface setulose. Carpels numerous, sessile, with a long subulate style stigma.
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