Medium-sized tree up to 25 m, with a narrow outline; bark rough. Leaves elliptic or ovate, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, 7.5-10.5 by 3-5 cm, bluntly acuminate, base acute rarely obtuse; longitudinal nerves 5, subequal at the base, elevated beneath, depressed or distinct above; veinlets reticulate, slightly elevated beneath, plane above; petiole 4-8 mm. Inflorescences in groups, branched near the base, racemose, up to 10 cm long. Flowers unisexual, bright yellow, slightly pubescent outside. Male flowers 1½ mm long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx lobes 4, deltoid, 1 mm long. Petals oblong, ⅔ mm long, slightly emarginate, margins incurved. Stamens 8, 4 epipetalous, sterile, ½ mm long, antherless or glandular at the tip; 4 episepalous, fertile, 213 mm long; filaments thick, flat, subulate. Disk obscure. Pistil rudiments 4, subulate, ⅓ mm. ♀ Flowers cylindric, c. 2.5 mm long, slightly pubescent outside, sessile or subsessile. Calyx lobes and petals similar as in the males. Disk none. Staminodes 8. Styles 4, free, subulate, ⅔ mm, thick, recurved. Fruit unknown.
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