Description: Lower shrub, monoecious, 0.4–2 m tall, branches hirsute. Stipules oblong to lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic, ovate to obovate, 1.5–7.5 cm long; apex bluntly acute or mucronate; base cunete to rounded; blade hairy below; secoundary veins 5–8 each side. Flowers in facicle, accresent in fruit; sepal 6; petals absent. Male flowers smaller, c. 3 mm in diam.; pedicels 3–4 mm long; stamen 3, united into an androphore, c. 0.3 mm long. Female flowers 5–10 mm. in diam., pedicels c. 3 mm long, longer in fruit; 3 smaller sepals c. 2.5 mm long; 3 larger ones 3–4 mm long. Ovary 3-locular, c. 1 mm long, style sessile, stima 3, divided in to 2, horizontal. Capsule ovoid, 5–8 mm long, glabrous; seed triangular, c. 5 mm long. |
