Shrub to 1.5 m high, thinly viscid on young shoots and buds; young branchlets glabrous, sparsely pusticulate. Leaves alternate, linear to linear-elliptic, 40–80 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; base attenuate; margin slightly recurved; apex straight, acute, apiculate; adaxial leaf surface glabrous except for isolated minute peltate scales, smooth. Inflorescences on peduncles 1–5 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 6–7 mm long; stamens c. 60. Female flowers on pedicels 1–2.1 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly oblong-ovate, 3.7–4.5 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire; ovary glabrous, smooth. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 7.5–10 mm long, glabrous, 1-seeded; persistent calyx lobes half the fruit length or less.
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