Treelet 4-6 m; bark grey; branchlets applanate, reddish-nigrescent when dry, minutely pubescent, soon glabrescent, smooth, striate. Leaves ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, c. 1.5 cm and rather broadly acuminate at the apex, rounded and inequilateral at the base, dark olivaceous and somewhat shining above when dry, more dilutely so and dull beneath, subcoriaceous, not or minutely pellucid-punctate, glabrous except yellowish do-matia, 14-18 by 4-5 cm; midrib stout, prominent on both faces, nerves 6-7 pairs, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, veins transverse and venules numerous, minutely prominent on both faces; petiole glabrous, 6-7 by 1.5 mm. Flowers pale-green, nigrescent when dry, 3-10 per fascicle. Bracts small and dense, pubescent. Pedicels 2-3 mm, glabrous. Calyx 2.5-3 mm, practically glabrous in-and outside, deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate-oblong. Stamens 12; filaments glabrous, slender, alternately 1.1 and 0.8 mm. Staminodes broadly oblong, densely whitish-hairy on top c. 0.6 mm. Ovary ovoid, c. 2 mm, glabrous except some hairs towards the apex.
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