Tree, 7-20 m, trunk 10-30 cm ø. Branchlets puberulent at tips, becoming blackish in dry state. Leaves oblong, apex rather abruptly acuminate for c. 1 cm, tip bluntish, base cuneate, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, blackish above, brownish-blackish beneath, dull and brittle in dry specimens, 6-9(-10) by 2-4 cm, nerves 5(-6) pairs, curved-ascending, a little raised beneath, no reticulation; petiole 6-8 by 1 mm, glabrescent. ♂ Inflorescences with 3-4(-5) branches (0.5-1 cm) together on top of slender peduncle (1-1.5 cm), each branch bearing a 3-5-flowered cyme, densely covered with minute red brown appressed hairs. Calyx obconical, minutely 5-dented, laxly hairy, 1.5 mm. Petals 5, firm in texture, whitish, remaining connate in the lower ¾ part, glabrous, c. 4 mm. Stamens 5, hardly or not exserted; filaments with rather few longish hairs ventrally below the anther cells. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences shorter than ♂ ones and with less numerous flowers. Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 5, subglabrous. Ovary glabrous. Drupe elongate-ellipsoid, known only in immature state.
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