Shrub 3 m; branchlets somewhat angular, minutely pubescent, soon covered with greyish cork. Leaves ovate-oblong, 1-1.5 cm, subcaudate-acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base into the petiole, glabrous or practically so, sub-coriaceous, laxly obscurely pellucid-punctate and-striate, brownish and dull when dry, teeth rather regular l-1.5(-2) mm high, 3-6 mm distant), 7-14(-18) by 4-6(-8) cm; midrib slightly raised above, manifestly so beneath, nerves 5-6 pairs curved upwards, flat above, little prominent beneath, veins transverse, conspicuous only on the undersurface; petiole glabrous, 3-6 mm. Flowers whitish, 1-2 sessile on top of a short (c. 3 mm long) many-bracteate axis. Bracts ovate, acute, membranous, 2 by 1.5 mm. Calyx nearly cylindrical, in all 4 mm long, 5-lobed in the upper third only and pubescent there in-and outside, ± glabrous elsewhere outside. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous, alternately 1 and 0.7 mm. Staminodes inconspicuous, represented by a few hairs only. Ovary elongate-fusiform, 3 by 1 mm, ± densely hairy.
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