Tree 20 m. Twigs sometimes faintly angular, 2-3(-4) mm diameter (in fruit-bearing part 11-13 mm diam.), dark grey-brown or reddish brown, very early glabrescent, hairs « dull rusty, 0.2-0.3 mm; bark longitudinally cracking; lenticels rather sparse but distinct. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 8-13.5 by 2.5-3.5 cm, base ± rounded to short-: attenuate, apex acuminate (to 15 mm); upper surface drying olivaceous-brown, glabrous, 1 lower surface pale chocolate, glabrous; dots absent; midrib raised above, glabrous; nerves 9-13 pairs, raised above, lines of interarching indistinct; venation faint on both surfaces; petiole 10-15 by 1-1.5 mm; leaf bud 10 by 2 mm, with dense dull rusty hairs 0.2-0.3 mm long. Male and female flowers not seen, but perianth apparently 3-lobed as judged from the perianth scars on the fruits. Infructescences 3-6 by 2-4 cm, borne on the older wood behind the leaves, glabrous (glabrescent), 3-6-fruited. Fruits ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.8-3.2 by 2.1-2.5 cm, glabrous, drying dark brown, not tubercled nor lenticellate; pericarp I hard-woody, 8-10 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 10-15 mm long; perianth not persistent.
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