Leaf bud pubescent, hairs greyish to dull brown, 0.1-0.2 mm long or less, twig apex early glabrescent. Inflorescences condensed to lax, usually much-branched, 8-25 cm long, with the pedicels and perianths sparingly to densely short-pubescent, hairs grey(-brown), 0.1-0.2 mm long; pedicels of male and female flowers slender, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Male flowers: buds 3-or 4-(or 5-)lobed, cleft to (2/3-)3/4-5/6, inside greenish to yellowish, or red; synandrium (depressed) globose or ellipsoid, (0.3-)0.4-0.5 by 0.3-0.5 mm, anthers (3 or) 4, or 5 or 6 (New Guinea, see note 1), androphore slender, (0.2-)0.3-0.6 mm long. Female flowers: ovary ovoid, with broad 2-lipped stigma. Infructescences 10-30 cm long. Fruits narrowly to broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, (2.2-)3-4.5(-5.5) by (1—)1.2—2.5 cm, apex obtuse or often subacute, base rounded, or with an up to 5 mm long narrowed part; pericarp 1-2.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 5-15 mm long; aril almost entire (Philippines, New Guinea) or laciniate c. 1/5; seeds ellipsoid, 2-3.2 cm long, apex acute or shortly beaked, testa variegated by longitudinal markings, in New Guinea not or only indistinctly so.
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