Shrub 2 m, branchlets finely pubescent at the tips only, soon glabrescent and covered with grey cork, terete, striate. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly (1 cm) subacutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate into the petiole, thinly chartaceous, practically not pellucid-punctate, glabrous except the very finely hairy midrib, brownish and dull when dry, entire or nearly so, I.c. minutely and remotely serrate at the young leaves only, (6-)8-12(-13) by 3-5(-6) cm; midrib little elevated above, prominent beneath, nerves 6-8 ascending pairs with more or less distinct intercalar ones, ± impressed above, prominent beneath, veins transverse, obscure above, little conspicuous beneath; petiole slightly pubescent, 2-5 mm. Stipules narrowly triangular, minutely pubescent, c. 3-5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide at the base, subpersistent, becoming firm and corky withage. Glomerules 5-8-flowered. Bracts minute, ½ mm. Pedicels slender, glabrous, ± 2 mm. Calyx thin, in all 2 mm long, 5-lobed in the upper 2/3, glabrous. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous or nearly so, alternately 4/5 and 3/5 mm. Staminodes obconical, densely pilose at the apex, 0.5 mm. Ovary ovoid, c. 1.5 mm, glabrous in the lower part, somewhat pilose upwards, attenuate into a short columnar style. Fruit (? mature) subglobose, glabrous except the hairy apex, c. 8 mm diam.
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