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Staminal tube exceedingly short, stamens 6–10 on puberulous filaments 0.8–1 mm. long; anthers c. 0.5 x 0.3 mm., ovate-lanceolate, minutely and sparsely puberulous or glabrescent, connective bluntly apiculate; staminodes 0.5 mm. long, oblong or subquadrate, densely hirsute.
Flowers numerous, greenish, in axillary fascicles borne on a cushion of minute, densely pubescent bracteoles; pedicels 3–4 mm. long, increasing to 1 cm. in fruit, sparsely puberulous or glabrescent.
Tall tree up to about 40 m. tall with rough greyish bark; young branches brown (or silvery in saplings), puberulous or glabrescent.
Sepals c. 2 x 1.5 mm., broadly elliptic or rotund, obtuse at the apex, margins membranous, puberulous or glabrescent outside.
Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, c. 1.3 x 0.8 cm., splitting from above into 2–4 longitudinal valves, glabrous.
Receptacle c. 2 mm. wide at the mouth, c. 1 mm. tall, funnel-shaped, puberulous or glabrescent outside.
Seeds few, c. 6 x 4.5 mm., ellipsoid, with a smooth pale testa, almost enclosed in a fleshy aril.
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style very short, stigma capitate.
