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Leaf blades 1.5–6.5 × 1–2.5 cm, obovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded-cuneate at the base, subentire or crenate-serrate at the apex, firmly chartaceous, drying a dull greyish-or brownish-green; lateral nerves in 5–6 pairs, not or weakly looped; tertiary and quaternary nerves reticulate with shallow pustules covering each reticulation.
Male flowers: pedicels 2–5 mm long, turbinate; sepals 3(4), 2 × 2 mm, suborbicular, not ciliate, eglandular, the outer hooded, cornute, greenish, the inner flat and cream coloured, petaloid; glands confluent, pubescent; stamens 12–14, usually in an outer whorl of 9–10 and an inner of 4–5, filaments 2 mm long, anthers 0.7 mm long.
Female flowers: pedicels 3–4 mm long, not or scarcely extending in fruit, stouter than in the male flowers; sepals ± as in the male flowers, but with rather more prominent horns; disk subcrenate; staminodes minute, subulate; ovary 3-celled, subglobose, 1.5–2 mm in diameter, smooth; styles 3, 0.7 mm long, bifid, recurved.
Tree, up to 6 m high. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, up to 50 x 30 mm, pellucid gland-dotted, apex rounded, margin scalloped. Flowers in clusters. Flowers yellow to greenish white.
Fruit 7–8 × 8–10 mm, 3-celled, subturbinate-globose, 3-lobed, ± smooth.
A glabrous shrub, or small slender lax tree up to 3 m tall, dioecious.
Seeds 5 × 5 mm, subglobose, smooth; exotesta whitish.
Stipules 1.5 × 1.5 mm, triangular, acute.
Petioles 1–2 mm long.
Twigs grey.
