Shrub 1-2½ m; branchlets flexuous, dark brownish-rusty-velvety, terete and striate, the older parts light-brown and glabrescent. Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, abruptly (1-2 cm) acutely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, not or rather obscurely and laxly pellucid-punctate and-striate, glabrous, dark brown and shining above when dry, initially soft-tomentose beneath, but ± glabrescent except the midrib and nerves, regularly minutely denticulate to entire, (12-)15-20(-25) by (5-)7-10(-l 1) cm; midrib and 10-12 curved-ascending pairs of nerves mostly slightly impressed above, manifestly prominent beneath, veins very densely transverse and parallel to each other, little but distinctly raised on both faces, other finer reticulations rather inconspicuous; petiole stout (±2 mm), ± tomentose to glabrescent, 5-6 mm. Flowers pale-green, on top of short (3-4 mm), many-bracteate axes, several of these in fascicles and divergent from each other. Pedicels ± 1 mm. Calyx 2-2.5 mm, deeply 5-lobed, rather densely pilose in-and outside. Stamens 8, of equal length; filaments glabrous or nearly so, 0.5 mm. Staminodes very short, densely long-hairy. Ovary ovoid, c. 1 mm long, laxly hairy. Fruit yellow, laxly pilose, c. 1.8 by 1 cm; peduncle 2 mm.
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