Erect shrubs, 1-2 m tall, monoecious. Branchlets terete, green-brown. Stipules triangular, base not auriculate, apex acute, ferruginous to almost black; petiole 4-8 × 0.7-0.9 mm; leaf blade elliptic, (3-)6-10(-12) × (2-)2.5-4(-4.5) cm, thickly papery, drying slightly discolorous yellowish green, both surfaces glabrous to sparsely hirsute, base acute, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 4 or 5 pairs. Inflorescences unisexual, always fasciculate. Male flowers 1 or 2 per fascicle, 2.5-3 mm in diam.; pedicel 4-5 mm; sepals obovate to oblong, 1-1.8 × 0.7-0.9 mm, apex rounded, eglandular; petals obovate to linear, 0.5-0.7 × 0.15-0.3 mm, apex acute to rounded; disk bilobed for ca. 4/5 of length. Female flowers 1 or 2 per fascicle, ca. 4.5 mm in diam., rotate; pedicel 20-25 mm; sepals oblong to elliptic, 2-3.5 × 1-1.5 mm, apex acute, eglandular; petals linear, 0.5-0.8 × ca. 0.1 mm, apex rounded; disk bilobed for 3/4 of length; ovary 4-6-locular, glabrous; styles 4 or 6, glabrous. Fruiting pedicel 17-25 mm; sepals not accrescent; capsule smooth to faintly reticulate, glabrous, drying brown. Seed smooth, brown.
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