A shrub or tree up to 15(—20) m tall. Leaves spirally arranged, ovate or elliptical, 3—9 cm x 2—5 cm, apex shortly blunt acuminate, margins crenulate-serrate. Inflorescence unisexual, male inflorescence densely spicate, almost catkin-like when young. Fruit a capsule, tricoccous, lobed, about 1 cm in diameter, borne in short racemes. |