Description

Small, deciduous tree, 6-8 m high. Bark pinkish-grey to dark brown. Leaves are peltate; lobes 3 or 5, lobes broadly elliptic to obovate, glabrous, base narrow, apex subacute or mucronate, margin entire, dark green above, pale bluish green below. Inflorescence a panicle. Flowers unisexual, greenish-white, flowers are greenish-white and muave tinged or pale yellow with reddish markings. Fruit a capsule, globose, smooth, warty when dry. Seeds biconvex, orange-brown, mottled black; caruncle yellow.