Small tree; branchlets terete, fulvous-tomentose at the tips, glabrous and greyish elsewhere. Leaves ± narrow-oblong, gradually acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate towards the base into a rather thick c. 3 mm long, tomentose petiole, subcoreaceous, mostly nigrescent above when dry, paler beneath, glabrous and shining above, rufous-tomentose beneath specially on midrib and nerves, somewhat glabrescent on the intervenium with age, entire, (11-)12.5-15 by 4.5-6 cm; midrib prominent specially beneath, nerves 9-10 pairs, subarcuate and obscurely joined along the edge, flat and ± pale above, a little raised beneath, reticulations rather obscure. Racemes ramiflorous, in flower 9-11, in fruit up to 18 cm, rufous-tomentose all over; rhachis slender. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Bracts lanceolate, minute. Perianth 5 (rarely up to 6) mm, yellowish or white, limb 1 mm diam. Anthers c. 1.5 mm. Disk glands minute, connate up to their middle. Ovary rufous-pilose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, dilutely brownish-velutinous, 5.5 by 2.5-3 cm, pericarp somewhat crustaceous c. 2 mm; pedicel rather stout, 1-1.5 mm.
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