Shrub or small tree to 10 m high, male and female flowers on the same plant. Leaves alternate, stalked; leaf stalks 4-38 cm long; blade peltately attached, ovate, 7-42 cm long, 5.5-37.5 cm wide; tip long-pointed to acute; base rounded to cordate; margins entire or toothed; lower surface gland-dotted. Inflorescences paniculate. Fruits orbicular, 6-13 mm wide, with projections 2-5 mm long.

Australia, Asia, Malesia, Melanesia.

Source: Forster, P. (2002). Euphorbiaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.