Tree up to 7 m high. Branchlets glabrous or pubescent. Leaf-blade elliptic or obovate, 2.5-5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, acute or rounded, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin serrate-callose, 3-(5)-nerved at base, nerves conspicuous on lower surface, glabrous, subcoriaceous; petiole 0.4-1 cm long, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence of simple spikes, up to 2 cm long; bracts 3, broadly deltoid, 0.4 mm long, 6 mm wide, red; rhachis glabrous or puberulous. Male flowers sessile. Sepals 3, concave, oblong, 0.6 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, margin sparsely ciliate. Petals 3, concave, obovate-spathulate, 1.2 mm long, 1 mm wide, margin ciliate. Stamens 9, in 3's at base of petals, 1-2 mm long, glabrous; anthers small, subglobose. Style aborted, terete, 0.8-10 mm long. Disc glands opposite sepals, toothlike, fleshy. Female flowers sessile. Sepals subrotund, 0.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, margin sparsely ciliate. Petals 3, subrotund, 0.5 mm diam., margin ciliate. Disc glands as in male flowers. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; styles 3, 0.3 mm long, slightly diverging, glabrous. Fruits obovoid, 4 mm long, 3.8 mm wide; seeds 1, ellipsoid-ovoid, 2.5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide; testa minutely tesselated.
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Tree, 0.08-5.00 m high, dioecious. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate; elliptic or obovate, margins serrate-callose, 3(-5)-nerved from base; stipules sometimes foliose, caducous. Flowers unisexual, spikes. Male flowers sessile; sepals and petals 3; stamens 9, in threes at base of petals; anthers small, subglobose; style aborted; disc glands opposite sepals, tooth-like, fleshy. Female flowers sessile; petals 3; disc glands as in males; styles 3, short, persistent. Flowering time all year. Fruit a dry, 3-valved capsule. Seed with red aril.
Dioecious, small tree to 7 m. Leaves elliptic, toothed, 3(-5)-veined from base. Flowers in axillary spikes, 3-lobed, greenish.
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