Tree c. 5 m. Twigs 1.5-2.5 mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs light brown, 0.3-0.5 mm; bark striate, neither cracking nor flaking; lenticels minute, inconspicuous or absent. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 12-21 by 4-6(-6.5) cm, base (rounded-) attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface drying dull olivaceous, lower surface pale, olivaceous brownish, with subpersistent scattered pale hairs 0.3(-0.5) mm, or subglabrous; dots absent; midrib raised above; nerves 12-17 pairs, slightly raised to flat above, lines of interarching regular, slightly impressed, obvious; venation lax, indistinct; petiole 8-14 by 1.5(-2) mm, late glabrescent; leaf bud 6-7 by 1.5 mm, with dense pale brown hairs 0.3-0.5 mm long. Inflorescences among the leaves, pubescent, hairs 0.3-0.5 mm long; in male: paniculate, 3-5 cm long, many-flowered; in female: not or only once branched, 2-5-flowered, 1-1.5 cm long; bracts not seen; flowers (male) in clusters of 2-6, glabrous, perianth 3-lobed (female) or 4-lobed (male). Male flowers: pedicel 0.5 mm long, articulated; buds depressed-globose, 0.6 by 1 mm, cleft slightly over 1/2; androecium depressed-globose, 0.5 by 0.9-1 mm (Plate 2: 55); thecae 32-36, central column slightly hollowed-out at apex. Female flowers: pedicel 1 mm long, not articulated; perianth (from fruit) 2 by 1.5 mm, cleft c. 1/2; pistil not seen. Fruits 1-3 per infructescence, ellipsoid, apex and base subobtuse, 1.4-1.5 by 1-1.1 cm, glabrous, drying dark brown, finely granulate, lenticel-like tubercles absent; pericarp 0.5-1 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 mm; perianth persistent.
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