A shrub or small tree, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rarely lanceolate (? juvenile); 17-30 by (3—)5.5 —11 cm; coriaceous, sometimes rugose, base broadly cuneate to rounded or cordate, apex with a short blunt or long slender apiculum, margin ± distantly spinose-dentate, veins prominent, gla-brous; petiole 8-20 mm, stout, channelled above. Monoecious. Inflorescence axillary or above the foliage leaves, paniculate with slender peduncle, rachis and branches, to 15 cm long and much branched, but often simpler and much shorter, sometimes cauliflor-ous. Purely female inflorescences sometimes simple pleiochasia. Male receptacle ovoid, c. 3 mm long; tepals 6; stamens 4-6, c. 1 mm long, filamen short. Female flowers globose, c. 2 mm Ø; minute tepals surround the ostiole, within which are glandular swellings; carpels c. 30, glabrous, stigma obtuse. Peduncle and pedicel thickened and woody in fruit; receptacle c. 7-12 mm Ø (without the stipes), stipes stout, c. 3-4 mm. Drupes ovoid or narrowly ovoid, 18-27 by 8-12 mm.
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