Small smooth-barked tree. Parts glabrous but for the pubescent domatia and parts of petals exposed in bud, and glabrescent sepals. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, slender. Leaves (4-)8-15 by (1.5-)3-5.5 cm, oblong-elliptic, thinly coriaceous; acumen to 1 cm long, subcaudate; base subequal, cuneate; nerves 9-12(-13) pairs, slender but prominent beneath, evident above, with small axillary domatia; tertiaries densely scalariform, very slender, evident beneath; petiole 8-12 mm long, slender. Panicles to 4 cm long, singly branched, to 3-ramiflorous; branchlets to 2 cm long, bearing to 4 secund flowers; bracteoles minute, deltoid, fugaceous. Flower bud to 8 by 4 mm, ovoid; sepals broadly ovate, the inner 3 acute, the outer 1 acuminate, becoming rotate before anthesis; petals lorate; stamens 15 in 3 unequal verticils; filaments broad at base, tapering and filiform beneath the broadly ellipsoid anthers; appendage aristate, c. 2-3 times length of anthers; ovary ovoid, surmounted by a slightly shorter slender cylindric tapering stylopodium with short terminal style c. 1/2 its length. Fruit unknown.
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