Tree. Twigs 5-7 mm diameter, blackish brown, glabrescent, hairs rusty to grey-brown, 0.2 mm; bark of older twigs not seen; lenticels conspicuous. Leaves thinly chartaceous, (obovate-)oblong, 16-26 by 6.5-9 cm, base (long-)attenuate, apex broadly acutish; upper surface drying olivaceous to blackish brown, glabrous, lower surface drying dark brown, early glabrescent but on the midrib towards the base vestigial hairs 0.2-0.3 mm; dots absent; midrib raised above, near the transition of the petiole 2.5-3 mm wide; nerves 14-17 pairs, raised above, lines of interarching not very distinct; venation lax, ± flat, indistinct; petiole 7-11 by 3.5-4.5 mm; leaf bud 15 by 4 mm, with hairs 0.2 mm. Inflorescences behind the leaves, with dense or sparse dendroid hairs 0.2-0.3 mm, glabrescent; in male: stout and compact, 4 or 5 times branched, many-flowered, 14 by 10 cm (not fully expanded), the main axis stout, towards the base 5-8 mm diameter, length of peduncle not known (broken off); bracts caducous, those of uppermost ramifications ± elliptic, subacute, densely pubescent, 3-5 by 2-4 mm; flowers in clusters of 4-10, perianth 3-lobed, glabrous, pedicel with sparse hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long towards base, articulated. Male flowers (submature): pedicel 1.5-2 mm long; buds broadly globose to broadly obovoid, 1.5 by 2 mm, apex broadly rounded, slightly depressed, base ± narrowly rounded, glabrous, cleft nearly 1/2, hard-fleshy, not collapsing on drying, lobes 0.2-0.3 mm thick, perianth towards the base 0.5-0.7 mm thick; androecium sub-globose-obovoid, 0.6 by 0.6 mm, ± sharp-triangular in cross section (Plate 3: 65); thecae 10-14, slightly incurved, connate, concealing the apical cavity reaching to 1/4-1/2 of the column; androphore slightly tapering, 0.1-0.2 mm long. Female flowers and fruits not seen.
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