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Leaves up to 17 x 8 cm, somewhat coriaceous, suborbicular (in the High Atlas Maire described the f. <em>rotundifolia <\/em>which we were able to verify) to lanceolate, hirsute-tomentose when young, then glabrescent, with the margin entire and slightly wavy, dark green on the adaxial surface and somewhat glaucous on the underside; they grow opposite on a short pedicel (0.5-1.5 cm). The male flowers are grouped in a kind of umbel in the axil of the leaves, they are formed by 4 oblong petaloid pieces (3-4.5 \u00d7 1.5-2 mm), yellowish-white in color, with 16-20 stamens . The female flowers are very similar, but instead of the stamens they have 4 sterile filaments around a greenish sub-sesile ovary. 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