Shrub or tree 1–9 m high. Trichomes simple. Leaves trifoliolate and/or simple. Trifoliolate leaves: petiole 2–9 cm long; terminal leaflet with petiolule 4–13 mm long; terminal lamina elliptic, 4.5–16 cm long, 1.5–5.5 cm wide, subattenuate or attenuate at base, acute to acuminate at apex. Simple leaves: petiole 1–3 cm long; petiolule obsolete or to 3 mm long; lamina ovate to elliptic, 4–10 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, rounded to acute or rarely subcordate at base, acute to acuminate at apex. Inflorescences axillary, 1.3–6 cm long. Flowers bisexual, male, or female; plants monoclinous or dioecious. Sepals basally connate, suborbicular to ovate, 1–1.3 mm long. Petals erect or spreading-ascending, 2.5–3.5 mm long, white, glabrous, adaxially plane or longitudinally 1-ridged, deciduous in fruit. Stamens 8, alternately unequal in length; filaments adaxially pilose in proximal ⅓–½; anthers in bisexual and male flowers c. 1 mm long (c. 0.5 mm long in female flowers). Disc glabrous. Gynoecium in female and bisexual flowers subapocarpous, 1.5–3 mm long (in male flowers c. 1 mm long); ovary glabrous; ovules 2 per locule; style 1–2 mm long, minutely pilose up to ⅔ its length or glabrous; stigma capitate, 4-lobed, 0.3–0.7 mm wide. Fruit of 1–4 follicles 9–12 mm long, each with stylar beak 0.5–1.5 mm long; exocarp subwoody; endocarp glabrous, adnate. Seed attachment Type A; seeds subglobose to ovoid or ellipsoid, 5–7 mm long; raphe of seeds ± straight or gently curved.
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