Tree 4-25 m. Twigs 1.5-2(-4) mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs grey-brown, to 0.1 mm long; bark finely striate, not flaking; lenticels small, conspicuous or not. Leaves membranous to (thinly) coriaceous, (elliptic-)oblong, 5—12(—17) by 2-4 cm, base attenuate, apex acute-acuminate or rounded, upper surface drying olivaceous to blackish brown, lower surface early glabrescent; dots present (lens!); midrib flattish or raised above; nerves 8-11 pairs, flat, inconspicuous above, lines of interarching indistinct; venation lax, hardly visible; petiole 8-13 by 1-2 mm; leaf bud 6-9 by 1-1.5 mm, with dense greyish brown hairs 0.1 mm. Inflorescences with sparse hairs 0.1 mm; in male: 3 or 4 times branched, moderately to many-flowered, 2-7 by 1.5-4.5 cm, peduncle 0.2-2 cm long; in female (from infructescences): 2-5 cm long; bracts ovate-oblong, short-pubescent, 1.5-2.5 mm long, caducous; flowers in male in loose clusters of 2-5, glabrous, perianth 2-4-lobed, pedicel ± articulated or not. Male flowers: pedicel 0.8-2 mm, slender, buds variable in shape, subglobose or ellipsoid, ± circular to faintly triangular in cross section, 1.2-1.8 by 1-1.5 mm, cleft c. 1/3-1/2, lobes 0.2 mm thick; androecium either broadly ellipsoid, globose, or depressed-globose, 0.6-0.7 by 1 mm, or mostly ellipsoid, 0.7-1.5 by 0.6-1.2 mm (Plate 3: 89); thecae 10-18(-20) or 24(-30), almost completely sessile, free apices to 0.3 mm, erect or slightly incurved, column with narrow shallow hollow, androphore up to 0.1 mm long. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 2-6 per infructescence, ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.1-2 by 0.9-1.6 cm, apex (narrowly) rounded, base rounded, glabrous, finely wrinkled or granulate, without tubercles; pericarp 1.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm long, articulated; perianth not persistent.
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