Shrub or small, low-branching tree, up to 12 m; trunk up to 5 cm Ø; bark smooth, light greyish brown. Branchlets slender, tips finely pubescent, lower parts glabrescent, striate, early covered with greyish cork. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sometimes subobovate-oblong, apex rather suddenly attenuate, mostly somewhat curved, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate, slightly inequilateral, subco-riaceous to coriaceous, practically glabrous with age, greyish green in dry specimens, shining above, dull and paler, sometimes tubercled beneath, (6-)8-18(-20) by 3.5-6.5(-9.5) cm, midrib slightly sunken above, much prominent beneath, nerves 4-5(-6) pairs, lower 2 or 3 pairs curved-ascending, upper ones more straight, all slightly or hardly raised above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense, finely raised on both faces; petiole 8-10 by 1.5-2 mm. Inflorescences both from foliate and lower defoliate axils, erect, (3-)5-15(-30) cm, solitary or rarely in twos or threes, laxly many-flowered; rachis 1-1.5 mm0, short-hairy as are the bracts and lower part of the calyx lobes, the latter ovate-deltoid, 1.5 mm. ♂ Flowers: Petals 5-6 mm, high connate to a tube of 2 mm ø, greenish-white, lobes short, finally reflexed. Filaments as long as the tube; anther cells narrow-elliptic, 1 mm, finally a little ex-serted. Rudiment of ovary hirsute, on a thick glabrous disk. ♀ Flowers: Tube of petals more urceolate, 3-4(-5) mm, lobes 1-1.5 mm, reflexed. Anther cells much reduced in size, empty. Ovary ovoid-conical, densely grey-pubescent, attenuate to a short ± unilateral style with a flattish or subcapitate bilobed stigma. Disk pubescent at upper margin. Drupe ellipsoid-oblongoid, sometimes subobovoid, green, obtusely trigonous, apex broadly attenuate or obtuse, rarely apiculate, each of the 3 faces with 2 or 3 longitudinal low obtuse ribs, (3-)3.5-4(-4.5) by 1.5-2(-2.8) cm; exocarp spongious; endocarp hard, thin, slightly longitudinally many-ribbed.
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