Trees, ca. 8 m tall. One-year-old branchlets brown-gray, glabrous, lenticellate; current year branchlets gray-green, striate, pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-10 mm, glabrous, sulcate adaxially; leaf blade gray-green abaxially, shiny and green adaxially, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-10.2 × 2-4.5 cm, leathery, glabrous on both surfaces, pinninerved, midrib elevated abaxially, slightly conspicuous adaxially, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, conspicuous on both surfaces, veins and veinlets densely reticulate, base cuneate, apex long acuminate, slightly falcate. Inflorescence paniculate or racemose, axillary, up to 4 × 1.5 cm, pubescent; peduncle 3-12 mm. Pedicels 1-4 mm, densely pubescent. Flowers greenish. Perianth lobes 6, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 2-2.5 × 1.5-2 mm, pubescent outside and inside. Fertile stamens 9; filaments hirsute, those of 3rd whorl each with 2 reniform glands at base, others glandless; anthers hirsute, 2-celled; cells of 1st and 2nd whorls introrse but those of 3rd whorl extrorse. Staminodes 3, sagittate, glabrous, subsessile. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, ca. 0.6 mm in diam.; style 1-1.2 mm; stigma subglobose. Fruit unknown.
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