Small tree, 6-15 m tall, 5-20 cm diam., the outer bark smooth, light brown, 5 mm thick, living bark 3 mm thick, light brown. Leaves fascicled at tip of branchlets; blades elliptic, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute, acute-acuminate to cuspidate at apex, acute to obtuse at base, 5-15.5 by 2-4.5 cm, entire, green, thick-membranous, shining on both surfaces, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, veinlets reticulate, prominent on both surfaces; petioles 1.2-3 cm long, 1 mm thick. Staminate inflorescences racemes 2-3 cm long; male flowers reddish or pale green, calyx 4-or 5-lobed, triangular, persistent, stamens 5—10, anthers oblong, elliptic, 1-1.5 mm long, 0.8-1 mm thick, apiculate to cuspidate at apex; pedicels 3 mm long. Pistillate inflorescences 1-2 cm long, calyx of the female flower deeply 5-lobed, staminodes present, styles circinnate or divaricate, as long as or longer than ovary; pedicels 10-15 mm long. Fruiting axes 2-5 cm long. Drupes ellipsoidal, smooth to rugose, 8-12 mm long, 6-8 mm diam., calyx caducous on drupe, fruit stalks 0.5-1.8 cm long.
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