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Female flowers: pedicels shorter than in the male flowers at first, but elongating in fruit; buds ovoid-ellipsoid; calyx lobes 3–5(6), 2 mm long, united at the base or for half their length, ovate or lanceolate, acute, pubescent and gland-dotted at the base without, glabrous within, recurved, green; ovary 1 mm in diameter, shallowly 3(4)-lobed to subglobose, densely pubescent and glandular; styles 1.5 mm long, ± free, plumose.
Male flowers: pedicels 3–7 mm long, jointed, pubescent; buds subglobose, apiculate; sepals 2 mm long, elliptic, subacute, sparingly pubescent without, glabrous and gland-dotted within, strongly reflexed, pale yellow-green; disk absent; stamens 2 mm long, filaments greenish-white, anthers 0.3 mm, whitish; pistillode absent.
Male racemes up to 11 cm long; axis sparingly to evenly pubescent, sparingly gland-dotted; bracts 0.5 mm long, triangular, 3–5-flowered.
Fruits 5–7 × 7–9 mm, deeply 3(4)-lobed, sparingly to evenly pubescent or puberulous and gland-dotted.
Female racemes resembling the males, but the bracts 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, 1–2-flowered.
Bark ± smooth to slightly roughened and flaky, whitish-or greenish-grey or brown.
An open shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall, often sarmentose, dioecious.
Seeds 3.5–4 × 3 mm, subglobose, smooth, shiny, greyish-olive-brown.
Flowers fragrant, with an odour of Convallaria.
Older twigs glabrescent, often purplish-brown.
Stipules 1 mm long, subulate, soon deciduous.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 6 m tall.
Young shoots fulvous-stellate-pubescent.
A dioecious shrub or tree, 6–40 ft. high
Flowers creamy-white.
