Trees. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-20 mm, glabrous; leaf blade lanceolate, 7.5-13 × 1.5-3 cm, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 12 pairs, reticulate-veined, base acute or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate. Umbels axillary, 3-or 4-flowered; involucral bracts 5, imbricate. Pedicel densely villous. Perianth segments 6, ovate or oblong, ca. 2.5 × 1-1.2 mm. Male flowers: fertile stamens 9; filaments villous at base, of 3rd whorls each with 2 shield-shaped sessile or subsessile glands at base; rudimentary pistil lacking. Female flowers: staminodes 9; ovary ovoid, ovary, style, and stigma glabrous; style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit ellipsoid, seated on cup-shaped perianth tube. Fl. Feb-Mar.
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