Sauropus repandus Müll.Arg. in Flora 55: 2. 1872; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 334. 1887; Chakrab. & M.Gangop. in J. Taxon. Bot. 20: 537, f. 10. A - E. 1996. S. trinervis sensu Hook.f., l. c. 334. 1887, p. p. (Sikkim specimens only), non Müll.Arg., 1863.

Shrubs, 1 - 2 m high; almost glabrous; branches terete; leaf-bearing branchlets often papillose-puberulous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, cuneate, acute, obtuse or truncate at base and sometimes decurrent into petioles; caudate-acuminate at apex, 5.5 - 13 x 2 - 3.5 cm, membranous to thinly chartaceous; strongly trinerved at base; upper lateral nerves 3 - 6 pairs; petioles 2 - 3 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 3 – 6 mm long. Male flowers: pedicels 4 - 10 mm long; calyx flat, discoid, unlobed, 2.5 - 5 mm in diam., entire or repand along margins, stiff; anthers ca 0.2 mm long, horizontal. Female flowers: pedicels 5 - 12 mm long, rarely puberulous; calyx-segments linear, ovate, narrowly elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, acute, obtuse to rounded at apex, 2.5 - 5 x 1 - 2 mm; ovary turbinate, ca 1.5 mm in diam.; styles ca 1 mm long, bifid at apex. Fruits somewhat depressed, ca 10 x 17 mm, rarely lobed, thin-walled, brown; pedicels 5 - 20 mm long.

Fl. & Fr. May - Nov.

Distrib. India: Tropical to subtropical forests, between 200 - 1525 m altitudes. Sikkim.

Bhutan, Nepal and China (Yunnan).