Tree 3-8 m. Twigs 2-3 mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs reddish to yellow-rusty, shaggy, 1.5-2 mm long; bark dark grey, striate, not cracking; lenticels inconspicuous. Leaves thinly chartaceous, elliptic(-oblong), 7-15 by 3-6.5 cm, base rounded to attenuate, apex acute(-acuminate); upper surface drying olivaceous or brown, glabrous, lower surface dull brown with persistent ± sparse dendroid hairs of mixed size, 0.5-1 mm long; dots (or dashes) present (always?); midrib flat above, with persistent indumentum or late glabrescent; nerves 5—9(—11) pairs, flat or sunken, lines of interarching indistinct; venation hardly visible; petiole 6-12 by 1.5-2.5 mm, pubescent; leaf buds 8-10 by 3-4 mm, hairs l(-2) mm long. Inflorescences with dense woolly hairs (0.7-)l-2 mm long; in male: many-flowered, 3 or 4 times branched, 5-9 by 3-5 cm, peduncle to 1.5 cm long; in female: 4-6 cm long; bracts caducous; flowers (in male several in loose clusters) glabrous, perianth 3-lobed, pedicel not articulated. Male flowers: pedicel slender, 0.5-1 mm long; buds subglobose, 0.8-1 by 1-1.4 mm, cleft c. 1/3 to nearly 1/2, lobes 0.1 mm thick; androecium small, ± depressed-globose, 0.3-0.5 by 0.4-0.8 mm, ± circular in cross section (Plate 2: 56); thecae 8 or 10, almost completely sessile, the tips incurved; column broad, with a minute apical hollow c. 1/5 deep, androphore narrow, somewhat tapering, 0.1-0.2 mm long. Female flowers (Warburg, I.e. & Sinclair, I.e.): pedicel 2 mm long, glabrous; buds ovoid-globose, 2 mm diameter, cleft slightly over 1/2; ovary subglobose, glabrous, stigma minute. Fruits (immature) oblong, obtuse at both ends, glabrous, 1 by 0.7 cm; fruiting pedicel 2 mm long; perianth persistent.
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