Shrub or small-sized tree up to 15 m, 20 cm ø. Bark smooth to finely fissured, lenticellate, grey-green or grey-brown. Terminal bud (5—)8—15(—18) by 1-3 mm; stipules linear-acute, 8-15 by 2-3 mm. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, rarely coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-obovate, very rarely ovate-elliptic, (4-)8-12(-16) by (1½-) 3-4(-5) cm, index 3-3½, glabrous,; base attenuate or rounded, more or less equal-sided; margin entire or sometimes minutely and distantly serrulate in the upper half (extra-Mal. and young specimens); apex attenuate-acute or rounded-acuminate; midrib and nerves slightly raised beneath, flattish above; nerves (5-)6-8(-9) pairs, 7-10 mm spaced, at up to 60° with the midrib, arcuating and anastomosing along the margin; reticulations subareolate, fine, dense, visible beneath, obscure above; petiole 5-7 by 1-1 ½ mm, sulcate. Inflorescences ♂ or ♀, axillary, borne on separate branchlets, including the bracts sparsely, short, appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; bracts ovate-acute, membranous, c. 1 by ½ mm. ♂ Inflorescence a slender, pendulous, simple or branched raceme, bearing 15-30 flowers, axes up to 5 cm long, 0.2-0.3 mm thick; ♂ flowers solitary along the axes, short-stalked, 1½-2 mm ø; perianth lobes broad ovate, c. 1½-2 by 1-1½ mm; filaments 1-1½ mm long, anthers ovoid-reniform, ¾-1 mm ø; pistillode strongly rudimentary. ♀ Inflorescence a slender, l-3(-5)-flowered raceme, 4-10 cm long, axes 0.2-0.3 mm thick; ♀ flower 2-3 by 2 mm, short-stalked; perianth lobes mostly 4, unequal in size, 1½-2½ by 1-2 mm; ovary sparsely short appressed-pubescent, 2-3 by 2 mm; stigmatic arms up to 1 ½ mm. Infructescences slender, up to 10 cm long, bearing 1—3(—5) fruits, axes thinner than 1 mm. Fruit c. 8 by 6 by 4 mm, sparsely, short appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; beak up to 5 mm.
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