Shrubs to small trees, up to 5(-12) m, dbh up to 30 cm; flowering branches 2-3.5 mm thick, densely hairy (to almost glabrous), glabrescent. Indumentum hirsute, simple hairs, up to 1 mm long, usually short (yellow) and long hairs (yellow or dark brown) present. Outer bark smooth, chocolate brown and grey mottled. Stipules triangular, 6-15 by 0.5-1 mm, hairy, about halfway; with usually triangular lateral lobes. Leaves: petiole 4-7 mm long, cylindrical, hairy; blades elliptic (to somewhat obovate), 6.7-26.5 by 4.1-11.1 cm, length/width ratio 1.8-3.6, leathery, often somewhat bullate, drying light green to somewhat brownish light green, base emarginate to rounded, margin entire, flat, apex acuminate to cuspidate (to caudate), sometimes mucronulate, upper surface generally hairy on midrib and nerves, lower surface hairy all over with short and long hairs, venation slightly sunken above, nerves 9-11 per side. Inflorescences terminal, up to 100 cm long, pale green to greenish brown, hairy, seldom subglabrous, pistillate flowers single; bracts (1.8-)4.5-31 by 0.4-1 mm, hairy, seldom glabrous. Flowers 5-merous; calyx with 5 lobes, up to 0.7 mm deep, lobes triangular, 0.4-0.6 by 0.3-0.5 mm, inside glabrous; petals 5, cucullate, apex rounded, bent inwards, midrib very thick. Staminate flowers 3.5-5.3 mm diam., (pale) green; pedicel 3.5-5.3 mm long; petals elliptic, c. 1.3 by 1 mm, basally with few hairs; stamens 10 in two whorls, one shorter, other longer, filaments glabrous, c. 0.3 or c. 0.6 mm long, anthers 0.25-0.4 by c. 0.25 mm, thecae parallel, basifixed; pistillode 0.7-0.8 mm high, long hairy, especially on the top. Pistillate flowers c. 1.4 mm diam.; pedicel c. 0.5 mm high, elongating in fruit up to 2.5 mm; petals 5, elliptic, caducous, 2-3.5 by 0.7-1 mm; ovary subglobular, c. 1.3 by 1.3 mm, 2-locular, hirsute; ovules single per locule, pendulous, anatropous; style c. 0.5 mm high, stigmas 0.6-1.4 mm long, deeply bifid, with long papillae above. Fruits flattened ovoid drupes, c. 11 by 8.5 by 6 mm, densely hirsute, wall thin, woody. Seeds not seen.
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