Shrub to medium-sized tree, up to 25 m, 40 cm ø. Bark smooth, pale grey-brown. Branchlets initially densely set with simple, yellowish-brown, soft, erect hairs, glabrescent. Terminal buds 1-1½ by 0.2-0.3 cm; stipules narrow elliptic-lanceolate, c. 1½ by ¼ cm. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-lanceolate or rarely ovate-elliptic, (5-)8-15(-17) by (2-)4-6(-8) cm, index 2½-3½; base rounded or attenuate, ± equal-sided; margin entire; apex acute to acuminate; midrib and nerves slightly raised beneath, flattish to slightly impressed above, often densely, short, appressed-hairy; nerves 10-13 pairs, at an angle of over 60° with the midrib, arcuating and anastomosing towards the margin; reticulations fine, lax, subscalariform to subareolate, faintly visible beneath; petiole 5-10 by 1-1½ mm, glabrous, shallowly furrowed or flat above near the base. Inflorescences ♂ or ♀, axillary, including the bracts sparsely short, yellowish-brown appressed-pubescent; bracts narrow ovate-acute, c. 1 by ½ mm. ♂ Inflorescence an unbranched or branched panicle, 3-5 cm long, bearing 15-30 flowers; ♂ flowers sessile and solitary along the axes, c. 1-1½ mm ø; perianth lobes ovate, 1½-2 by 1 mm, sparsely short, appressed-pubescent outside; filaments 1½-2 mm, anthers ovoid-reniform, ½-1 mm ø; pistillode strongly rudimentary. ♀ Inflorescence an unbranched, (l-)3-5-flowered panicle, 3-4 cm long with the axes c. ½-1 mm thick; ♀ flowers 2-3 by 2 mm; perianth lobes 5, ovate, 1½-2 by 1 mm; ovary 2-3 by 2 mm, densely short, appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; stigmatic arms up to 1½ cm. Infructescence up to 5 cm long, axes c. 1 mm or thicker, bearing (1—)3—5 fruits. Fruit ± glabrous, c. 1 by 6 by 3 mm, short-beaked.
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