Tree c. 8 m. Twigs 1.5-2 mm diameter, hairs pale brown, 0.1 mm, early glabrescent, bark (coarsely) striate, drying greyish, not flaking; lenticels present. Leaves ± membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 13-21 by 3.5-6 cm, base long-attenuate, apex rounded or bluntish to subacute; upper surface glabrous, drying dull, brown-olivaceous, lower surface slightly paler, glabrous (very early glabrescent); dots absent; midrib above slender, flat; nerves 15-18 pairs, sunken or flattish, inconspicuous; venation lax, indistinct; petiole 10-20 by 1.5-2.5 mm, drying blackish; leaf bud 10-12 by 1.5-2 mm, with dense pale brown hairs 0.1 mm long. Inflorescences among the leaves, with pale brown stellate hairs 0.1 mm; in male: small, ± slender, rather few-flowered, once or twice branched, 1.5-2.5 by 1-2 cm, peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm long; bracts ± elliptic, densely pale brown villous by hairs 0.1 mm, caducous; flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, glabrous or glabrescent, hairs scattered, less than 0.1 mm, perianth 3-or 4-lobed, pedicel not articulated. Male flowers: pedicel (0.5-)l-2 mm long; buds (± ovoid-)ellipsoid, 2-2.4 by 1.5-1.8 mm, cleft 1/3—1/2(—2/3), lobes 0.1-0.2 mm thick; androecium nearly sessile, ellipsoid, 1.8-2 by (1.3—)1.5 mm, in cross section subcircular (Plate 3: 81); thecae appressed, 16 or 18, almost completely sessile, free apex of anthers 0.1 (-0.2) mm; column with narrow excavation 0.2(-0.3) mm deep; androphore narrow, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Female inflorescences, flowers, and fruits not seen.
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