Shrub or tree to 10 (–18) m high, monoecious or dioeceous. Minute pale yellow or colorless trichomes, glabrescent on stems, persistent around petiole bases; laminae glabrous. Stipules not seen. Leaves alternate, occasionally opposite; petiole 0.6–3.6 cm long; lamina obovate or elliptic, 6.5–16 cm long, 2.5–6.7 cm wide, base cuneate or auriculate, margin entire or dentate, apex acuminate, venation penninerved; lower surface glabrous, covered in peltate scales, often conspicuously golden colored. Male flowers racemose; bracts cup-shaped, c. 0.5 mm long; stamens c. 18–22, filament 0.2–0.5 mm long. Female flowers racemose or fasciculate; bract 2–3.5 mm long, linear-triangular; ovary pubescent; styles 2 (or 3), 2–3.5 mm long. Capsule 3.5–6 mm long, 6–9 mm wide, bilobed, pubescent, scaly, lacking bristles.
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