Tree c. 10 m. Twigs 2-angular, lower down ridged, 3-5 mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs grey-rusty, 0.2 mm long; bark rather smooth, not flaking; lenticels small, distinct. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 17-28 by 4.5-8 cm, base long-attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface drying olivaceous, lower surface early glabrescent, at first with stellate-scaly hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long; dots absent; midrib broad and flat above; nerves 13-16 pairs, thin, flat above, lines of interarching indistinct; venation lax, slightly raised, indistinct above; petiole 6-11 by 2-3.5 mm; leaf bud 10-15 by 1.5-2 mm, with hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long. Inflorescences in male: among the leaves, with sparse stellate hairs 0.2(-0.3) mm long, (2 or) 3 (or 4) times branched, rather many-flowered, 6-8 by 4-6 cm, peduncle 0.5-1 cm long; bracts not seen, caducous; flowers in loose clusters of 2-5, perianth 2-lobed, glabrous except some minute hairs towards the base; pedicel sparsely pubescent, not articulated. Male flowers: pedicel not tapered, slender, 2.5-3 mm long; buds in lateral view circular to slightly longitudinally ellipsoid, not or slightly laterally compressed, blackish brown, not collapsing on drying, 2.3-2.8 by 2.2-2.8 mm, apex subacute or narrowly rounded, base rounded, cleft 3/4-5/6, lobes 0.2 mm thick; androecium laterally compressed, 1.5 by 1.5-2 mm, apex (broadly) rounded (Plate 1: 22); thecae 20-28, erect, free apices 0.1 (-0.2) mm long, column narrowly hollowed for c. 1/4; androphore absent. Female flowers and fruits not seen.
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