Dioecious small tree (up to 5 m by 5 cm) or shrub. Branchlets early glabrescent, reddish brown to black. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 16-22 by 4.5-6 cm, papyraceous, irregularly corrugated, glabrous; glands, if present, few, on the lower side, mainly near the base; base acute; apex tapering, blunt to acute; nervation sunken above, prominent beneath; nerves 8-9 pairs, curved, usually distinctly interarching. Inflorescences glomerulous, 0.5-1 cm, scattered pilose, with 10-12 flowers. Flowers 2.5 mm long. Petals broadly spathulate, slightly emarginate. Disk-lobes ¼ mm, cordate, glabrous. Pistil densely woolly pubescent; ovary 3-celled; style 1, tripartite at the tip. Fruits solitary, short-stalked, 3-lobed (one lobe much smaller), obcordate, 1.25 by 1.5 cm, not distinctly grooved, faintly tuberculate, subglabrous.
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