Shrubs or small trees, 1-7 m tall. Branchlets yellowish brown pubescent and villous; branches glabrous. Stipules filiform, ca. 3 mm, pilose, caducous; petiole 3.5-6 cm; leaf blade rhombic-ovate or triangular-ovate, sometimes shortly 3-cuspid, 8-14 × 5-8 cm, membranous, abaxially pubescent and sparsely glandular-scaly, adaxially pubescent along veins, base slightly cordate, with 2 or 4 glands, margin entire or minutely denticulate, apex caudate; basal veins 3, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs. Male inflorescences paniculate, 5-11 cm, pubescent; bracts leaflike, ovate, 1-2.5 × ca. 1 cm, or triangular-ovate, 1-1.5 mm. Male flowers ca. 10, glomerate; sepals 3 or 4, 1.5-2 mm, pubescent; stamens 18-20. Female inflorescences capitate; peduncle 6-12 cm; bracts 2, large, subovate, 1.7-2.5 × 1-1.4 cm, margin serrate, upper part with 4-6 patelliform glands, pilose, or bracts 2 or 3, often lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Female flower solitary; pedicel ovary 2-locular, sparsely softly echinate; style 2, filiform, 1-2 cm, base connate. Capsule 2-lobed, ca. 12 mm in diam., sparsely softly echinate and glandular-scaly. Fl. Mar-Oct, fr. May-Dec.
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