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Flowers 2–16 in fasciculate axillary subdichasial or monochasial cymes, functionally dioecious, 5–7 mm. in diam., sweetly scented; buds c. 2 mm. long, ovoid to subglobose; inflorescence branches densely red-brown-tomentose; primary peduncle absent, secondary peduncles fasciculate; pedicels 2–6 mm. long, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/2; bracts 0·5 mm. long, triangular, entire, red-brown, sparsely pubescent, persistent.
Stamens 3; in male flowers with filaments slender, equalling the style, and anthers orange, large, fertile, glabrous or ± sparsely pubescent, dehiscing by 2 oblique clefts confluent at the apex; in female flowers with filaments usually shorter than the anthers and anthers small, sterile, otherwise as in male flowers.
Shrub or small tree, (1·2)3–5(6) m. high, with rounded crown, without latex; bark smooth; stems ± flattened with paired raised lines at first, becoming terete and rugulose, densely chocolate-brown-to fawn-pubescent.
Petals yellow or greenish-yellow to brownish, 1·5–2 mm. long, ovate to oblong, rounded, entire or with margin ciliolate, sometimes longitudinally ribbed, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, free.
Ovary conic, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, immersed in the disk, with style narrow, elongated in both forms of flower; stigma slightly 3-lobed; ovules 2 per loculus.
Sepals brown, red-brown-tomentose outside, puberulous or glabrous within, c. 1 mm. long, subequal, ovate to oblong, obtuse or subacute, entire, free.
Fruit red to red-brown, sometimes glaucous, c. 1·5–2·3 × 1·5–2·7 cm., globose or dorsiventrally somewhat flattened, rugulose, 2–4 seeded.
Disk green, thick, convex, 5-angled, sometimes ± fluted, glabrous or puberulous.
Seeds cylindric.
A shrub.
