Shrub 3 m; branchlets laxly rusty-pilose at the tips, glabrescent elsewhere, nigrescent, lenticels obscure. Leaves ovate-oblong, c. 1 cm obtusely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, slightly inequilateral, greenish-olivaceous and somewhat shining when dry, subcoriaceous, conspicuously pellucid-punctate and-striate, glabrous above, laxly pilose on midrib and nerves beneath or entirely glabrescent, but always with yellowish domatia, entire or very minutely and remotely glandular-denticulate towards the apex, (5-)7-9(-10) by 2.5-4 cm; midrib and 4-5(-6) pairs of nerves nearly flat above, prominent beneath, veins distinctly transverse, venules densely reticulate-prominent on both surfaces; petiole laxly appressed-pilose, 6-9 mm. Flowers greenish, in few-flowered fascicles, 1, rarely 2, flowers developed at the same time. Bracts minute, 0.5 mm, rusty-pubescent as are the pedicels and the calyx. Pedicel 4-5 mm. Calyx 2½ mm, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10, 5 of these normally developed; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1 mm, 5 others reduced in size, filaments 0.5 mm only. Staminodes 10, filiform, pilose, more densely so at the apex. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 3 mm; style very short. Immature fruit c. 1.2 cm long, glabrous.
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