Shrubs or small trees, densely branched, to 5 m. Stems velvety when young, glabrate later; branches ascending, unarmed. Leaf blades elliptic, 2-6 × 2-5 cm, base rounded, occasionally pubsecent along veins, apex rounded to slightly retuse. Inflorescences: staminate inflorescences compound cymose to corymbose, 2 cm diam.; pistillate densely compound cymose at anthesis, more open in age; branches divaricate or ascending; fruiting pedicel 0.5-2 cm. Perianths: perianth of staminate flowers green or white, urceolate, 2-4 mm; perianth of pistillate flowers greenish, often blushed with red, 3.5-4 mm, densely puberulent. Fruits clavate, 7-10 × 3-4 mm, sparsely puberulent between glandular ribs, glands appearing only along distal 1/3-1/2.
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