Tree 6-18 (-30?) m high; monoecious; twigs with brownish scurfily hispidu-lous-lepidote indumentum. Leaves thinly chartaceous; petioles lepidote, eglandular, (1-) 2-4.5 cm long; stipules narrowly lanceolate to subulate, densely lepidote, ca 2-4 mm long, soon deciduous; blades elliptic to elliptic-oblong, mostly 8-16 cm long, 5-8 cm broad, dark, minutely pustulate and sparsely lepidote above, paler beneath, minutely glandular-punctate, and sparsely lepidote (scales ca 0.1-0.2 mm wide); venation distinctly pinnate, the major lateral veins (ca 8-12 on a side) ? straight, the base rounded to truncate, the margins entire, ? abruptly contracted to an acuminate or caudate tip. Inflorescences axillary, racemiform, becoming 7-15 cm long, mostly bisexual, 1-2 per axil; 9 flowers (1-)3 or 4 at the base; c flowers many, distal; bracts subtending solitary flowers, inconspicuous, less than 1 mm long. Staminate flowers with lepidote pedicels 2.5-4.2 mm long; calyx-lobes 5, valvate, triangular, lepidote, ca 2.2-2.8 mm long; receptacle villose; petals elliptic to oblanceolate, 2.4-3.2 mm long, glandular-punctate, densely villose on the mar-gins, lepidote on the back; stamens (10-) 11-13, the filaments hirsutulous, 2-4.5 mm long, the anthers narrowly elliptic or oblong, 1-1.2 mm long. Pistillate flowers with stout lepidote pedicels 3.5-7 mm long at anthesis; calyx-lobes 5, equal, tri-angular or ovate, densely lepidote, 2.2-2.7 mm long; disc annular, adnate to the base of the calyx, ca 2.8 mm across; petals obovate, 2.2-2.9 mm long, similar to the male; ovary densely lepidote, scales minutely denticulate, ca 0.3-0.5 mm in diam, the styles usually 3 times bifid, ca 2.5-3.5 mm long, the branches slender, glabrous, spreading. Capsules not seen entire; cocci smooth, lepidote, ca 35 mm long, the columella winged, ca 25 mm long; seeds slightly compressed, concave-convex, reticulate-costate on sides and back, scarcely beaked, 20-22 mm long, 11-12 mm broad.
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