Tree or shrub to 7 m tall, sometimes epiphytic; bark of twigs usually exfoli-ating on the second or third nodes from the tip and appearing yellowish-strigose. Leaves ovate, apically obtuse, basally acute, membranaceous, the midvein slight-ly excurrent beneath, the lateral veins ascending at ca. 30? to the midrib, slightly arcuate in the distal part of the leaf, unbranched, nearly perpendicular to the submarginal vein, the submarginal vein slightly undulate, ca. 0.5 mm from the margin, the margin minutely revolute; resin canals mostly indistinct; petiole 5-15 mm long. Staminate inflorescence few flowered; peduncles 3-5 mm long, sub-tended by a pair of short, ca. 2 mm long, deltoid to ovate bracts; pedicels 5-8 mm long, subtended by a pair of broad bracteoles ca. 2 mm long. Pistillate info-rescence of solitary flowers or 1-3 at the terminus of a twig; peduncle 5-8 mm long, about equal to the pedicel; bracts scale-like, minutely or to 10 mm long and foliaceous. Staminate flowers with the buds globose, ca. 10 mm across, sepals imbricate, ca. 5 and 4, drying black, petals ca. 15 mm long, rotund; stamens ca. 12 plus some peripheral staminodes, forming a hemisphere with the thecae con-trasting light, opening as terminal pores, the pores flush with the flat apical por-tion; pistillate flowers with the buds depressed globose, ca. 8 mm across; sepals 5-6, imbricate, broadly ovate or rotund, ca. 6 mm long; petals rotund, ca. 15 mm long, waxy, white or flushed with pink; androecium wanting; ovary 6-8 carpellate, the styles sessile, separated in the center by a minute pore, this not enlarging in fruit. Fruit ovoid, 25-35 mm long, the stylar crown 8-11 mm across; seeds nu-merous, axile, ca. 7 mm long.
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