Dioecious shrubs or small trees to 7 m. tall. Branches rather slender, minutely puberulent to glabrate, inconspicuously lenticellate at maturity. Leaves petiolate, the blade elliptic to obovate-or oblong-elliptic, rarely lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse to cuneate, 5-23 cm. long, 3-9 cm. broad, glabrous or rarely very inconspicuously puberulent beneath particularly on the midrib, the petiole 0.5-4.0 cm. long. In-florescences 8-20 cm. long, minutely puberulent, many-flowered, the cymules strikingly dichasial with the terminal flowers sessile and the lateral with slender pedicels as long as the flowers or somewhat shorter. Staminate flowers oblong-urceolate, 6-9 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, thinly and minutely puberulent, white, yellow, or red. Pistillate flowers tubular, the lobes erect or suberect, conspicuously thickened at the orifice of the tube, 4-5 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. broad, densely and minutely puberulent. Anthocarps narrowly ellipsoid, 7-10 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, red.
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