Shrub or small to medium-sized tree 3–15 m. tall, with rounded crown and silvery, grey, purplish or yellow flaking or non-flaking smooth shiny bark.. Branchlets fairly stout, very brittle, with sparse milky white sap, minutely and inconspicuously pubescent at the apex, quickly becoming glabrous; bark at first brownish, soon becoming ashy-grey and irregularly cracked longitudinally.. Leaves 3–5 together at the ends of the branchlets, round to reniform or oblong to elliptic-oblong, 0.4–5.5 cm. long, 0.6–6 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, shortly and abruptly subcuneate into the petiole from a rounded or subtruncate base, papery or thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved with the lateral nerves soon forked, veinlets dark, loosely reticulate, slightly impressed and inconspicuous on the upper surface, hardly raised but conspicuous by their colour on the paler lower surface; petiole slender, minutely puberulous, 0.6–4 cm. long.. Cymes yellow, yellowishgreen or greenish brown, 2–4, fascicled at the ends of the branchlets, 3–6 cm. long; rhachis and its branches black, minutely and sparingly pubescent or puberulous; peduncles 2 cm. long; pedicels 0.5–1 mm. long, puberulous.. Perianth 0.5 mm. long in male, 0.8 mm. long in hermaphrodite flowers, irregularly lobed, coarsely pilose.. Filaments up to 1 mm. long, coarsely and sparingly pilose; anthers oblong, 0.5–0.8 mm. long.. Staminodes clavate, 0.8 mm. long, densely villous.. Ovary subglabrous or minutely and sparingly puberulous.. Fruits ovoid, 9–10 mm. long, 6–7 mm. wide, black, glabrous or velvety, faintly 8-ribbed; wings linear-oblanceolate, ± 4–5.5 cm. long, 2 mm. wide at base, 5–7 mm. wide above, glabrous, 12–15-nerved.. Fig. 3.
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