Small tree, 10-12 m, trunk and branches flexuous; branchlets slender, +-densely minutely pubescent, brownish when dry, terete. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, sometimes ovate-oblong, broadly obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, ± inequilateral, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, yellowish-brown when dry, paler beneath, shining above, not pellucid-punctate, entire, 6-10 by 3-4½ cm; midrib slightly prominent above, distinctly so beneath, nerves 5(-6) pairs, curved-ascending, flat, little prominent beneath, veins distantly transverse, nearly inconspicuous above, minutely raised beneath as are the finer reticulations; petiole slender, glabrous, 5-7 mm. Fascicles many-flowered, from small, subglobose tubercles. Flowers greenish. Bracts small, 0.5 mm diam., pubescent. Pedicels slender, laxly pilose, 3-4 mm. Calyx 3 mm, deeply 5-lobed, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Stamens 10; filaments alternately 1 and 0.6 mm, nearly glabrous. Staminodes 0.5 mm, densely villous. Ovary narrow-ovoid, 2 mm, glabrous or nearly so, the stigma sessile.
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