Tree or large shrub 3-12 m tall; branches often with stout, spreading, spinescent twigs 1-3.5 cm long; branchlets minutely pubescent. Leaves with the petioles slender, 5-15 mm long; blade obovate, obovate-elliptic or ? 'elliptic, acute at the base, rounded-obtuse and acuminate at the apex, 6-12 cm long-and 3-6.5 cm wide, the acumen 4-7 mm long, chartaceous, the margins more or less distinctly crenate, conspicu-ously pellucid-punctate, the upper surface lustrous and glabrous, the lower surface dull and inconspicuously appressed-pubescent mainly along the prominulous costa and the 5-7 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescences axillary, densely fasciculate, the fascicles sessile, 8-15-flowered. Flowers greenish, the pedicels articulated below the apex, 1-2 mm long, the bracts numerous, crowded, often longer than the pedicels, ca 2-3 mm long, pallid-strigulose towards the apex, persistent; buds subglobose; calyx 4.5-5.5 mm long, the lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1.8-2.3 mm wide, scarcely united at the base into a tube 0.5 mm long or less, minutely appressed-pubescent without, glabrous or sparsely strigulose within; stamens 8(9), the filaments filiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous, united at the base among themselves and with the staminodes into a very short tube, the anthers oblong, ca 0.5-0.7 mm long; stami-nodes 8(9), elongated-oblong, ca 1-2 mm long and 0.4-0.5 mm wide, conspicuously white-pilose; gynoecium 3-3.5 mm long, pilose, the ovary ovoid, 1 mm in diam at the base, gradually attenuate into a short style, the stigma conical-capitate. Fruit unknown.
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