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Female flowers pedicellate, pedicels c. 2 mm long; calyx c. 1 mm across, cupular, ± truncate or scarcely 3-lobed, green; ovary less than 1 mm in diameter, subglobose, unilocular, densely granulate-glandular and with or without a few fleshy warts; style lateral, 3–5 mm long, massive, subulate, thick, straight or recurved, ± smooth.
Male flowers sessile, honey-scented; calyx lobes 3–4, 1.5 × 1 mm, ovate, acute or obtuse, glandular, yellow; stamens 13–17, the filaments of the inner 3–6 fused almost to the top, those of the outer ones united only at the base.
Male inflorescences 4–7 cm long, densely paniculate; bracts small, 1–1.5 mm long, ovate, acute, entire, eglandular, many-flowered.
Young shoots, petioles and inflorescence axes ferruginous-tomentellous and gland-dotted at first, soon glabrescent.
Fruit 4 × 4 mm, subglobose, sparingly verrucose, densely granulate-glandular, pale yellowish-green.
Seed 3.5 × 3.5 mm, subglobose, endotesta rugulose, dull, with a purplish-black fleshy exotesta.
A tree up to 18(30) m high, with ascending or spreading branches and a compact crown.
Female inflorescences 2–5(7) cm long, racemose; bracts usually 1–2-flowered.
Stipules 3 mm long, lanceolate, acute, deciduous.
Petioles 3–8(14) cm long, pulvinate.
Bark smooth, grey.
Wood soft, white.
