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Male flowers on leafy shoots; pedicels 4–5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent; calyx bilobed, sepals 1–1.5 mm. long, semi-orbicular, appressed-pubescent outside; petals yellow or pale orange, free, ± fleshy, sub-equal, 5–6 mm. long, elliptic, acute, appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous within; stamens 0.5 mm. long, oblong, glabrous, connective not produced.
Leaves petiolate; lamina 7–15 x 2–4.5 (6) cm., narrowly elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rarely rounded at the base, membranous, bluish-green, concolorous, glabrous, with relatively loosely reticulate venation prominent on both sides; petiole 2–4 mm. long, glabrous or rarely sparsely pubescent.
Fruit on a pedicel 1–1.5 mm. long; fruiting carpels usually 4–6, several-seeded (1.2) 2.5–3.5 (4.8) x 1.2–1.8 cm., cylindric, not usually apiculate, ± deeply constricted between the seeds, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent, finely rugose, red, black when dry, with stipes 3–6 mm. long.
Female flowers on leafy or defoliated shoots or on the old wood; pedicels 6–11 mm. long; sepals c. 2 mm. long, subacute; petals 5–7 (9) mm. long, ovate; carpels numerous, densely pubescent, stigma black when dry, glabrous; otherwise similar to male flowers.
Flowers monoecious, solitary or rarely paired, axillary; bracteoles 2, semi-orbicular, appressed-pubescent, ± persistent, near base of pedicel.
Branches spreading, glabrous even when young.
Shrub or small tree, 4–7 (9) m. high.
Seeds 4–6, 10–13 mm. long, biseriate.
