Urera elata Griseb.

Shrub or small tree, 2-4 m. (occasionally to 6 m.) high, sometimes becoming scandent; leaves ovate-oblong to elliptic-ovate, up to 30 cm. long and 12 cm. wide, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, sometimes slightly emarginate, crenate-serrate, crenulate, or subentire, glabrescent, or occasionally hirsutulous on the principal nerves beneath; plants dioecious, the inflorescences dichotomous, much shorter than the petioles, staminate flowers sessile in glomerules, glabrous; pistillate flowers short-pediceled, usually borne singly.

It is a tropical plant.