Shrubs 0.5-1 m tall, all parts glabrous. Branches not dichotomous, blackish, scattered lenticellate. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, rarely oblong-lanceolate, (5-)6-10 × 2.5-3.5 cm, papery or leathery, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, base broadly cuneate, rarely cuneate and slightly decurrent, apex obtuse. Spikes solitary or 2-or 3-fascicled, axillary, 8-16-flowered, 1-4 cm; bracts ovate, concave, ca. 0.5 mm. Flowers unisexual (plants dioecious), 6-merous. Calyx ovoid, ca. 1 mm. Male flowers: mature bud clavate, 4-5 mm; corolla yellowish green, petals linear-spatulate; stamens inserted on middle of petals, filaments 1-2 mm; anthers 4-loculed, 1-1.5 mm; sterile style filiform or cylindric, 1.5-2 mm, apex acuminate or 2-lobed, rarely acute. Female flowers: mature bud cylindric; petals lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm; staminodes 1-1.5 mm; anthers filiform or absent; style ca. 2.5 mm, 6-angled; stigma capitate. Berry yellowish, ovoid, ca. 5 × 4 mm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct.
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