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The seeds contain 42% oil, the kernel about 56%. The oil has a pleasant odour and taste. It consists chiefly of cis-12:13-epoxyoleic acid (62%) along with saturated acids (7%), oleic acid (10%), linoleic acid (17%) and 12:13-dihydroxyoleic acid (4%).

Monoecious, perennial much-branched shrub up to 3 m tall; taproot stout; bark dark grey; all parts covered with stellate hairs, young parts somewhat viscid. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules irregularly cleft with filiform segments, c. 2 mm long; petiole 1–2.5 cm long; blade broadly ovate-oblong to elliptical-ovate, (0.5–)1.5–4(–6) cm × (0.5–)1–2.5(–4) cm, base rounded or shallowly cordate, apex acute to rarely obtuse, margins entire to toothed, papery, 5–7- veined from the base. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, with male flowers in a dense terminal globose cluster and 1–4 female flowers at base of peduncle; peduncle 2–6 cm long; bracts up to 3 mm long. Flowers unisexual, regular; petals absent; male flowers with pedicel up to 5 mm long and with 4 glabrous, elliptical-ovate sepals c. 2 mm × 1–1.5 mm, white to pale greenish white, stamens 4–5, free, filaments c. 5 mm long, bright yellow, pistillode cylindrical, 2-lobed; female flowers sweet-scented, with pedicel up to c. 1.5 cm long and with 6 sepals, bipinnately lobed, c. 5 mm long, strongly enlarging in fruit, lobes linear, with side lobes, often flushed purplish red, ovary superior, c. 2 mm in diameter, 3-lobed and 3-celled, styles 3, fused at base, c. 7 mm long, cleft into many lobes, lime-yellow to ochre. Fruit a deeply 3-lobed capsule c. 12 mm in diameter, hairy, 3-seeded. Seeds ovoid to nearly globose, c. 7.5 mm × 6 mm, smooth, evenly greyish or dark brown flecked and mottled, somewhat shiny.