Slender understorey tree, 4-25 m high, 20-30 cm in diam., outer bark grey-brown, quite smooth, inner bark straw-coloured, flecked with brown; branches thick, lenticels elliptic. Leaves fascicled at the tip of branches; blades lanceolate, acuminate at apex, the acumen 5-15 mm long, cuneate at base, 12.5-20 by 3.5-7.5 cm, bright brown on both surfaces, lateral nerves 12-14 pairs, prominent on both surfaces, ascending above, sub-trinerved at base; petioles 4-5 cm long, black. Staminate flowers not seen. Pistillate inflorescences 6 cm long; calyx caducous; stigmas circinnate; pedicels 9-13 mm long. Fruiting axes solitary, axillary, racemose, c. 10 cm long; calyx obscure. Drupes more or less ellipsoid, dark brown, nearly verrucose, c. 1 cm long, 7 mm wide; stigmas 2, persistent, recurved, terminal, subsessile; fruit stalks 7-12 mm long.
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