Shrub, sometimes scandent, young branches pubescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, to 14 by 6.5 cm, chartaceous, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex shortly cuspidate to acuminate, margin entire or with obscure or more prominent re-mote teeth in the upper part, becoming glabrous or with slight pubescence persisting below, the veins and minor reticulations prominent below; petiole 8-22 mm, pubescent or becoming glabrous. Monoecious. Inflorescences axillary or at the ends of leafy shoots, of few-flowered cymes or larger paniculate cymes, to 5 cm long, the rachis, branches and pedicels pubescent; female flowers appear to be confined to the ends of the lower branches. Male receptacles obconic with a flat glabrous and black apex (in dried material) to 8 mm ø, sides of the receptacle hispid; 4 minute tepals forming a raised ostiole; stamens 4, sessile; anthers c. 1 mm wide, connective hairy. Female receptacle similar but larger (c. 10 mm ø at anthesis), inside with long hispid hairs between the numerous (10-20) carpels; carpels c. 2 mm long, ovary pilose, style awl-shaped, glabrous. Receptacle not greatly enlarged in fruit, leathery. Mature drupes subsessile or stipitate, ovoid, to 12 by 10 mm, apex mucronate, glabrous, rugose.
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