Shrub or treelet to 3 m, glabrous, the nodes dilated with pores inhabited by ants. Leaves sessile, broadly cordate to oblong, up to 30 by 23 cm, coriaceous, the base amplexicaul, apex narrowing to a short or long apiculum, margin with small or coarse sharp denta-tions (the upper leaves and those of juvenile plants narrower and more dentate), veins and reticulations very prominent on the underside. ?Monoecious. Inflorescence of axillary fascicles (or rarely supra-axillary) borne on a very short bracteate peduncle; pedicels up to c. 10 mm, slender in male gradually widening into the flower, female thicker, becoming woody in fruit. Male flower ovoid, 2 by 1.5 mm, 3 pairs of tepals; stamens c. 5, subsessile; anther broadly triangular with a single horseshoe-shaped opening. Female flower globose, 4.5 by 4.5 mm, ostiole surrounded by 2 pairs of obscure tepals (addi-tional pairs probably within the ostiole); upper part of the receptacular chamber with very thick irregular glands; carpels numerous, glabrous; stigma short, obtuse. Drupes sessile ovoid, c. 15 by 10 mm, verru-culose when dry.
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