J. curcas is a shrub or treelet, 2-5 m tall, with watery latex;bark smooth;branches glaucous-gray, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate, pith larger. Stipules small;petioles 6-18 cm;leaf blade rotund to ovate, 7-18 ? 6-16 cm, papery, nitid green and glabrous adaxially, gray-green and along nerves puberulent to glabrous abaxially, base cordate, apex acute;palmate veins 5-7. Inflorescences axillary, 6-10 cm;bracts lanceolate, 4-8 mm. Male flowers: sepals 5, approximately 4 mm, connate at base;petals oblong, green-yellow, approximately 6 mm, connate to middle, hairy inside;disk glands 5, nearly terete;stamens 10;outer 5 filaments free, inner filaments connate in lower part. Female flowers: pedicels elongate;sepals free, approximately 6 mm;petals and disk glands as in male;ovary 3-locular, glabrous;styles bifid at apex. Capsules ellipsoidal or globose, 2.5-3 cm, yellow. Seeds ellipsoidal, 1.5-2 cm, black (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2015).
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