Shrub or treelet, 1.5-6 m Twigs 1.5-2 mm diameter, with rusty hairs to 0.1 mm long, glabrescent; bark finely striate, neither cracking nor flaking; lenticels few and inconspicuous or absent. Leaves membranous, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 5-20 by 0.7-5 cm, base (long-)attenuate or acute, apex long-acuminate, acumen often slender, to 3 cm long, or gradually narrowed from slightly above the middle, blade above glabrous, drying dark brown (sometimes slightly olivaceous), beneath glabrescent with scattered hairs 0.1 mm or less remaining on and near the midrib, drying brown or olivaceous brown; dots absent; midrib above slender, flat or raised; nerves 11-19 pairs (usually with some intersecondary nerves not reaching the marginal nerve), above indistinct, flat or sunken, beneath distinct, with lines of interarching usually distinct; venation coarse and distinct; petiole 6-14 by 0.5-1.5 mm, glabrescent; leaf bud 7-12 by 1 (—1.5) mm, with dense rusty hairs 0.1 mm or less. Inflorescences among the leaves, 2 or 3 times branched, peduncle 0.2-1 cm long, with grey-brown hairs 0.1 mm or less, rather few-flowered; in male: 2-3 by 1.5-3 cm, flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together; in female: 1-1.5 cm long, not or little branched, few-flowered; bracts oblong, 1-2 mm long, caducous; flowers 2-lobed, with sparse hairs 0.1 (-0.2) mm or less, glabrescent in the apical part, pedicel not articulated. Male flowers: pedicel slender, (2.5-)4-6.5 mm long; buds slightly compressed elliptic(-obovate) to elliptic-oblong, 2-3 by 1.5-2 mm, cleft 1/6 to nearly 1/4; perianth 0.5-0.7 mm thick, towards the apex of the lobes 0.2-0.3 mm; androecium club-shaped, the apex subacute (to bluntish), 1.5-2.5 by 0.6-0.8 mm; anthers 0.5-0.7(-l) mm long, mutually touching, at apex free for c. 0.3 mm (Plate 1: 75); thecae 8, column not hollowed at apex; androphore glabrous or basally with scattered pale brown hairs less than 0.1 mm, the upper part with somewhat warted or wrinkled surface. Female flowers: pedicel 2.5-3.5 mm; buds ellipsoid or ± fusiform, 2-2.5 by 1.5-2 mm, cleft c. 1/3; perianth (and lobes) 0.2-0.3 mm thick; ovary ovoid, 1.5 by 1.4 mm, densely minutely pubescent, style erect with 2 ± acute lobes together 0.4 mm long. Fruits 1 or 2 per in-fructescence, broadly ellipsoid-ovoid, including the 0.5-2 mm long apiculum 1.2-1.5 by 0.8-1 cm, pseudostalk 1.5-2.5 mm, all with hairs 0.1 mm or less, pericarp 0.5(-l) mm thick, drying blackish, without lenticels; fruiting pedicel (5—)10—12 mm long, not or hardly broadened towards the apex; perianth not persistent.
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