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Female flowers: pedicels 1–3 mm long, extending to up to 1.5 cm in fruit and becoming sharply decurved at the tip; sepals ± as in the male; petals, when present, 1 mm long, subulate, acute or linear, 2-lobed; disk 3 mm in diameter, glabrous; ovary 2.5 × 3 mm, 3-lobed to subglobose, densely fulvous-pubescent, grey-green; styles 1.5–2 mm long, sparingly pubescent, greenish, stigmas glabrous, yellowish.
Male flowers: sepals 1.5 × 1 mm, ovate, subacute, pubescent towards the apex without, glabrous within, greenish; petals, when present, 0.5 mm long, subulate; disk glands 2-lobed, contiguous, apically setose; stamens 2 mm long, filaments uniformly slender, anthers 0.5 mm long; pistillode 0.5 mm high, cylindric, pubescent, 3-lobulate at the apex, lobules glabrous.
Seeds 4–5 × 3–4 mm, ovoid-subglobose, smooth, shiny, dark green at first, later becoming dark brown; hilum and caruncle tawny-brownish.
Fruit 6–7 × 8–11 mm, depressed, rounded-3-lobed, sparingly appressed-pubescent, pale grey-green, sometimes pinkish-tinged.
A small, several-stemmed scrambling shrub or slender tree up to 6 m high; bark smooth, pale grey.
Male spikes 0.5–4.5 cm long, amentiform, pendulous, shortly pedunculate; axis densely pubescent.
Stipules 0.5–1 cm long, lanceolate to setaceous, acute, pubescent, green, subpersistent.
Twigs green at first and shiny, later becoming brownish or purplish-grey.
Female racemes 6–17 cm long, extending to 25 cm in fruit.
Young shoots densely fulvous-pubescent.
Petioles 0.5–1 cm long, 1–3 mm thick.
