A shrub (?) with glabrous branchlets. Leaves ellip-tic to narrowly elliptic, 7.5-11 by 2-3.5 cm, mem-branous, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin en-tire or irregularly dentate, midrib evident, principal veins arched and uniting within the margin, gla-brous; petiole to 8 mm, slender, channelled above. Monoecious. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, gla-brous, c. 2.5-5 cm long, of small simple cymes or panicles with delicate peduncle and branches; pedicels of the male flowers more delicate than of the fe-male. Male flowers c. 1 mm Ø, ovoid; tepals 4, minute; stamens 4, subsessile. Female flowers ± globular with minute tepals with swollen glands with-in; carpels c. 8, glabrous. Fruits not seen.
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