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Leaf blades 2–8 × 1–4 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, somewhat asymmetrically cuneate to truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, bronze when young later bright green on upper surface with a yellow midrib and nerves, and glaucous beneath; lateral nerves in 6–10 pairs, usually with a few glands on them beneath, quaternary nerve network becoming verruculose beneath with age.
Inflorescences up to 2 cm long; male head 3–8 mm in diameter, subglobose or ovoid, yellowish or reddish; male bracts 1 mm long, triangular, with 1–3 obconical glands on each side near the base; female flowers 0–3 per inflorescence, green; female bracts resembling the stipules.
Female flowers: pedicels extending to 3 cm long in fruit; calyx lobes c. 1 mm long, broadly triangular-ovate, acute; ovary 1 × 1 mm, subtriquetrous-ovoid or lenticular-ovoid, smooth; styles 1–1.5 mm long, subpersistent.
Male flowers: pedicels to 1 mm long; calyx lobes c. 1 mm long, lanceolate, unequal, acute; staminal column 2 mm high, anthers 0.3 mm long, yellow.
Seeds 7–9 × 6–7 mm, ± smooth or shallowly malleate, greenish-black; caruncle 6–7 mm long, orange or scarlet.
A sparingly-branched shrub or small tree up to 8 m tall, with pendent branches, deciduous, monoecious.
Fruits 8–10 × 8–12 mm, smooth, dull green, reddish-tinged, red or crimson.
Bark corky, deeply-fissured, grey or light brown.
A savannah tree, up to 20 ft. high, rarely more.
Stipules 1 mm long, ovate, reddish-brown.
Petioles 5–30 mm long, wine-red.
Twigs reddish-brown.
