Tree; branchlets blackish when dry, puberulous on the younger parts, soon glabrescent. Leaves oblong, c. 1 cm rather sharply acuminate at the apex, acute or cuneate into the petiole at the base, rigid and ± coriaceous, dark-brown when dry, not pellucid-punctate, glabrous and somewhat shining above, paler and softly tomentose with pale spreading hairs underneath at least at the midrib and nerves, domatia always present, entire, 6-8 (-10) by 2-3(-4½) cm; midrib and nerves distinctly impressed above, prominent beneath, veins transverse, visible only on the undersurface, reticulations fine; petiole pubescent, 7-10 mm. Flowers pale, c. 4-6 in each fascicle. Pedicels slightly pubescent, 2 mm. Bracts very minute, pubescent. Calyx c. 3.5mm, pubescent outside, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous, alternately 1.8 and 1.5 mm. Staminodes narrow-oblong, villose at the apex, nearly 1.8 mm. Ovary elongate-ovoid, 3 mm long, laxly pilose towards the top.
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