Tree or shrub, 3-15 m. Twigs 1-4 mm diameter, hairs rusty-grey, 0.1 mm long, early glabrescent; bark finely striate, not flaking; without or with few lenticels. Leaves membranous or thinly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6-19 by 1-6.5 cm, base attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface drying (dark) olivaceous-brown, finely pale pustulate or not, lower surface early glabrescent, hairs 0.1 mm or less; dots absent; midrib slender, raised above; nerves 6-14 pairs, raised or ± flat above, indistinct; venation lax, hardly distinct on both surfaces; petiole 5-12 by 0.7-1.5 mm; leaf bud 8 by 1 mm, with hairs 0.1 mm long. Inflorescences glabrescent or with sparse to dense stellate hairs 0.1 mm long or less; in male: (1 or) 2 (or 3) times branched, 1.5-7 by 1-4 cm, peduncle 0.3-1.5 cm, slender; in female: few-flowered, 1-4 cm long; bracts 0.5-1 mm long, densely woolly pubescent, caducous; flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, perianth 2-lobed, (almost) glabrous; pedicel slender, sometimes with minute hairs, not articulated. Male flowers: pedicel slender, (1—)2—3.5 mm long, slightly broadened towards the perianth, glabrous or with some scattered minute hairs at base; buds broadly obovoid or mostly subglobose, not or only somewhat compressed laterally, 1-1.5 by (1-) 1.5-2 mm, when dry wrinkled but not or slightly collapsed, apex rounded, base shortly tapered, cleft l/3(—1/2), lobes 0.1-0.2 mm thick; androecium ± flattened especially in the upper part, rather thick at base, broadly ellipsoid in outline, apex and base broadly rounded, 0.6-0.8 by 0.9-1 mm (Plate 1: 25); thecae 16, mutually appressed, the free apices up to 0.1 mm; androphore 0.4-0.5 mm; column hollow for c. 1/5. Female flowers: pedicel 1.5-2 mm long; buds ellipsoid-obovoid, 1.5-2 by 1.5 mm, cleft to c. 1/4; ovary ellipsoid, 1-1.2 by 0.8 mm, glabrous or with a few minute hairs at apex, stigma minutely 2-lobulate, 0.1 mm long. Fruits 1 (or 2) per infructescence, ellipsoid, apex rounded, not pointed or for only 1 mm, base rounded or attenuate into a pseudostalk (1.5-)2-6 mm long, excluding pseudostalk 1.3-2(-2.5) by 0.9-1.2 cm, glabrous, drying blackish, with or without paler pustules (or lenticels); pericarp 1-2 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 5-10 mm long; perianth not persistent.
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