Leaves: petiole 1.3–3.5 cm long, tomentulose to pubescent; lamina lanceolate or elliptic, 8.5–16 cm long, 3.5–6 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above apart from sometimes pubescent midrib, pubescent below especially along main veins. Inflorescences axillary, paniculate, 5–17 cm long, tomentose. Male flowers: pedicel 1–2 mm long, pubescent; sepals c. 18, cream, externally silky-pubescent, with innermost 3 sepals elliptic, acute and 2.5 mm long; petals attached to base of stamens, 0.75 mm long; stamens very shortly connate at base, 1 mm long. Female flowers pedicellate; sepals to c. 24; carpels 1 mm long. Drupes subobovoid, 12–14 mm long, drying with a prominent dorsal ridge, red, fulvous-tomentose; stipe c. 2 mm long.
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