Shrubs to small trees, up to 20 m, bole up to 11 m high, dbh up to 25 cm; flowering branches 1-2 mm thick, glabrous to sericeous or hirsute, glabrescent. Indumentum short (< 0.5 mm long) to long (up to 1 mm long) simple hairs, sparsely to densely hirsute or sericeous, dark brown and yellow or yellow only. Outer bark smooth to slightly roughened (to slightly fissured to scaly), green to light brown to reddish brown to white to light to dark grey, often patches of different colours; inner bark pale greenish to whitish to pale yellow to pink to red to brown, soft, granular, c. 3 mm thick; sapwood white to yellowish to pale orange to red, hard. Stipules triangular, 1-3 by 0.3-0.5 mm, hairy. Leaves: petiole 1.3-8 mm long, flattened above, glabrous to hairy; blades ovate to elliptic to obovate, 4.1-32 by 1.2-13.8 cm, length/width ratio 1.9-14.7, papery, flat to bullate, drying light green to somewhat brownish light green, base emarginate to attenuate, margin entire, flat to recurved, apex long acute to cuspidate, often mucronulate, upper surface glabrous to hairy on midrib and nerves, dark green, lower surface glabrous to hairy all over, pale glaucous to lighter green, venation slightly sunken to slightly raised above, nerves 7-11(-22) per side. Inflorescences terminal, up to 110 cm long racemes (seldom paniculate), subglabrous to hairy, dark green to light brown, pistillate flowers single or three per node; bracts 0.7-2.7 by 0.25-0.5 mm, glabrous inside. Flowers (4-or) 5-merous, green (to white); buds yellow-green; calyx with (4 or) 5 lobes, 0.8-1.3 mm deep, lobes triangular to ovate, 0.5-1 by 0.4-0.6 mm, midrib inside generally (partly) hairy; petals (4 or) 5. Staminate flowers 2-3.2 mm diam.; pedicel 2.5-10 mm long; petals elliptic, cucullate with apex at right angles with rest, 1-1.8 by 0.7-1 mm, higher than deep, apex with hairs on abaxial surface; stamens (8 or) 10 in two whorls, of different length, filaments glabrous, 0.3-0.5 or 0.5-0.75 mm long, anthers c. 0.5 by 0.3 mm, thecae parallel; pistillode 0.5-0.7 by 0.3-0.5 mm diam., hairy with short to long hairs. Pistillate flowers 1.6-4 mm diam.; pedicel 0-3.5 mm long, elongating in fruit up to 12 mm; petals 5, elliptic, usually hairs on the apex, 2 types, one slightly cucullate, the other type cucullate with a long, inward bent hook-like apex and a stipe-like base (up to c. 0.7 mm long), 1.7-2 by c. 1 mm; ovary 0.8-1.2 by 0.8-1.2 mm, 2-locular, without petaloid imprints; stigmas 0.5-0.7 mm long, deeply bifid, lobes also split, with long papillae above. Fruits laterally flattened ovoid drupes with ridges along edges, 10.5-12 by 7.8-8.5 by 6-6.3 mm, somewhat hairy, glabrescent, yellowish to pale green to white, wall thin, woody, c. 0.4 mm thick. Seeds seen immature.
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A shrub. It grows 1-12 meters high. The trunk is 2 cm across. The bark is light and white. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are usually hairy underneath. The leaves base is unequal. The leaves are sword shaped. The flowers are 1.5 mm across. They are greenish-yellow. The fruit are light green and hard. They are 7 mm long and angular. They are fleshy.
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