Shrub or small tree 1.5–6 m high; branchlets smooth, green or reddish. Leaves: petiole 1–4 mm long; lamina obovate to linear-lanceolate, (4–) 8–20 cm long, 1.5–5.5 cm wide, truncate and auriculate base, acuminate apex, chartaceous. Petals 2 (–4), oblanceolate or obovate, 7.5–13 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide. Male flowers: pedicels 8–50 mm long; petals 6.5–14.5 mm long; stamens 17–65; sterile carpel 1 (rarely absent or 2). Female flowers: pedicels 8–29 mm long; petals 5–10 mm long; carpel 1, sessile; ovules 15–40. Apocarps ellipsoidal, 15–20 mm long, usually purplish, sometimes white and mottled with red; transversely septate pulpa present; stipes to 1 mm long. Seeds 8–27, slightly curved, 3–4 mm long, 1.7–2.5 mm wide. See also Cooper & Cooper (2004: 559), Zich et al. (2020).
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