Treelet 3-4 m; tips of branchlets laxly to sub-densely clothed with appressed, rufous hairs, glabrous and brownish later. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, gradually attenuate towards the top, obtuse, broadly attenuate at the base and ± de-current along the petiole, olivaceous-brown when dry, rather shining on both faces, stiffly chartaceous, midrib very laxly rusty-hairy on both faces, later glabrous, mostly manifestly subserrate-den-tate, or sometimes with a few teeth in the upper part only, very rarely nearly entire, 7-14(-16) by 3.5-5.5(-6.5) cm; midrib slightly elevated above, conspicuously so beneath, nerves 6-7 pairs distinctly curved-anastomosing, slightly raised beneath, reticulations rather dense and slightly raised on both faces; petiole glabrescent, 3-6(-9) mm. Racemes axillary, dense-flowered, 7-10 cm, slender, rather densely rufous-pilose on rhachis and pedicels; rhachis c. 0.6 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acute, 1 mm. Pedicels mostly in twos, slender, 1.5-2 mm. Perianth yellow or greenish, laxly rufous-pilose, 7-8 mm. Anthers 1.2 mm. Disk glands subqua-drangular, free, close. Ovary rufous-tomentose; style slender, glabrous. Immature fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, verruculose, laxly rufous-pilose, 8 by 6 mm.
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