An erect many-stemmed shrub 1–2 m. tall.. Twigs brownish or purplish brown, sparingly lenticellate.. Young shoots fulvous pubescent, soon glabrescent.. Petioles 4–5 mm. long, sparingly pubescent; leaf-blade elliptic, (3–)5–10 cm. long, (1.5–)3–5 cm. wide, obtuse or shortly obtusely acuminate, cuneate, subentire, thinly chartaceous, slightly fleshy, lateral nerves 6–8 pairs, looped within the margin, sometimes only incompletely, with no additional series of loops and a scarcely visible tertiary nerve network, scarcely prominent above or beneath, glabrous above, puberulous especially on the midrib beneath at first, later glabrescent, dull above and beneath, dark green above, much paler beneath.. Stipules triangular-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, sharply acute, subglabrous.. Male racemes catkin-like, solitary, 2–6.5 cm. long, shortly pedunculate; axis evenly to densely puberulous; bracts broadly triangular-ovate, 1.5 mm. long, acuminate, puberulous, persistent.. Female racemes solitary, 3–4 cm. long, extending to 9–13 cm. in the fruiting stage, pedunculate; axis and bracts ± as in the ♂ inflorescences.. Male flowers: pedicels 2 mm. long, glabrous; sepals suborbicular, 1 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide, rounded, subglabrous, ciliate, green; petals 0; disc-glands clavate, 0.5 mm. long, pubescent; stamens 1.5 mm. long, anthers 0.5 mm. long, yellow; pistillode 0.7 mm. high, 1 mm. wide, obconic, concave at the apex.. Female flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, extending to 7 mm. in the fruiting stage; sepals ovate, 1 mm. long, acute, subglabrous, ciliate; petals 0; disc 1.3 mm. diameter, ciliate; ovary subglobose, 1.5 mm. long, 2 mm. diameter, smooth, glabrous; styles 1 mm. long, subglabrous.. Fruit trilobate, depressed, 3.5 mm. long, 7 mm. diameter, glabrous.. Seeds 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, striate, reddish brown.
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