Tree, evergreen (?). Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, sparsely brown minutely puberulous, more densely hairy towards the base of the petiole, smooth, drying dark brown to blackish. Leaves distichous; lamina coriaceous, elliptic to subobovate, 6-13 by 2.5-6.5 cm, apex rounded, base rounded to cordulate, slightly unequal, margin entire, ± revolute (towards the base); upper surface brownish minutely puberulous mainly on the midrib, smooth; lower surface minutely brownish puberulous on the main veins to whitish puberulous on the smaller veins, smooth; lateral veins 7-9(-10) pairs, none of them forked away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, (and also the smaller veins) prominent; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, densely minutely brown puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules lateral, 0.2-0.4 cm long, brownish puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences not seen. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; (in fruit) peduncle 1.5-2.5 cm long, densely brownish puberulous; head subglobose (?); stigma simple; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part c. 0.2 mm diam., puberulous, persistent in the central part of the infructescence, largely caducous in the peripheral part. Infructescences discoid and strongly lobed around the fruits, the central part whitish velutinous, the peripheral part (lobes) red-brown velutinous.
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