Tree 4-15 m. Branchlets puberulous at tips. Leaves oblong-elliptic, apex ± abruptly acuminate for 1-2 cm, tip bluntish, base broadly attenuate, subcoriaceous, olivaceous-brown above, paler beneath in dry state, glabrous above, sparsely set with short hairs initially, more laxly so or at the lower part of the midrib only at maturity and minutely tubercled beneath, (8-) 10-16 by (4-)4.5-8 (-10) cm, nerves 5-6(-7) pairs, curved-ascendent, distinctly looping before the edge, slightly raised beneath; petiole puberulous initially, 1-1.5(-2) cm by 1.5-2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences composed of 3 or 4 divergent, rather dense flowered cymes together on top of a slender peduncle (0.5-1.3 cm), short-hairy on peduncle and branches. Calyx cup-shaped, minutely 5-dented, tube glabrous, hardly 1 mm. Petals connate in a distally widened and shortly 5-lobed tube, whitish-greenish, glabrous, c. 3.5 mm. Stamens 5, exserted for c. 1 mm; filaments laxly penicillate below the anther cells ventrally and at connective dorsally. Rudiment of ovary glabrous or practically so. ♀ Inflorescences not known. Immature infructescences 1-3-flowered, peduncle c. 5 mm, pedicels (branches of the reduced cyme) 3-5 mm. Developed ovary densely appressedly hairy. Drupe ellipsoid-oblon goid, a little curved, shortly and rather narrowly attenuate at apex, more broadly so at base, very base swollen or subapophysate for c. 1 mm, 1.7-1.9 by 0.6-0.7 cm, whitish; exocarp with few and rather low longitudinal ridges.
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