Tree up to 25 m tall, evergreen. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous, smooth, drying blackish; lenticels scattered, few. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina (sub)coriaceous, entire, narrowly elliptic, 10-36(-55) by 4-13(-20) cm, apex short-acuminate to acute, base cuneate (to obtuse), often slightly unequally, margin entire to repand; upper surface (sub)glabrous, smooth; lower surface minutely whitish appressedly puberulous on the midrib, smooth; lateral veins 11-16 pairs, tertiary venation scalariform, slightly prominent; petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous or also with sparse brown uncinate hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules fully amplexicaul, 1-5(-8) cm long, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle c. 4 cm long, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous or also with brown (retrorse) uncinate hairs; head cylindrical to spicate or to subellipsoid, 2-2.5 by c. 0.5 cm; perianth tubular c. 0.8 mm long, the apex 2-lobed, minutely puberulous; stamen c. 1.5 mm long, anther c. 0.2 mm long; interfloral bracts absent. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 3.5-5.5 cm long, minutely whitish (appressedly) puberulous or also with brown (retrorse) uncinate hairs; head ellipsoid to cylindrical; perianth tubular, minutely brownish puberulous, the apex convex; stigma simple; interfloral bracts absent. Infructescences cylindrical, up to 6.5 by 3.5 cm, covered with 1-2 mm long, pyramidate apices of the perianths; fruits ellipsoid, c. 0.7 (?) cm long.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 25 m tall. The leaves are arranged in spirals. They are narrowly oval with a pointed tip. The lower surface is smooth with white hairs on the midribs. The male flowering groups are solitary in the axils of leaves. The stalks are 3.5-5.5 cm long. The fruit are oval.
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