Small, slender, virgate tree; tip of the branchlets appressedly rusty-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subacutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base and de-current on the petiole, firmly subcoriaceous, olivaceous to dark brown, glabrous and somewhat shining above when dry, more dilutely so and rather dull beneath, initially sparsely pilose with appressed hairs on intervenium and midrib, early glabrescent, with 2-4 teeth in the upper part on each side, (4-)5-7 by 2-2.5 cm; midrib nearly flat above, prominent beneath, nerves c. 8 pairs, distinctly curved-anastomosing, slightly prominent on each face, reticulations very dense, minutely raised on both faces; petiole 2-3 mm. Racemes axillary or ramiflorous, very slender, densely appressedly rufous-pilose, 3-4.5 cm, rather laxly set with flowers nearly to the base; rhachis 0.5 mm diam. Bracts not seen. Pedicels mostly in twos and nearly connate up to the apex. Perianth white, rather densely appressed-pilose in bud, glabrescent during anthesis, c. 6 mm, tube 0.5 mm, limb 0.8 mm diam. Anthers 0.75 mm. Disk glands rather thick, broadly ovate, truncate, free, close. Ovary rufous-tomentose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit unknown.
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