A shrub growing up to 4 m tall. Leaves rhombic, 2—10 cm x 1—5 cm, glabrous, coriaceous, narrowed into a blunt base, with characteristic serrate blunt tips and 5 slender vein pairs with 1 pair from the leaf base; petiole less than 1 cm long. Inflorescence a slender, puberulous raceme, about 5 cm long, upper part male, with 2 or 3 female flowers at the base; male flowers minute, in small tufts; sepals ovate, acute, ciliate; stamens about 10, filaments hairy, scale-like, lanceolate acuminate; female flowers enclosed in a large herbaceous bract. Fruit a capsule, 2.5 mm long, covered with long protuberances. |
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