Small tree to 7 m, young branches glabrous. Leaves glabrous, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, membranaceous, 9-13 by 2.8-4.8 cm, base narrowed into the petiole, apex narrowed into an indistinct and obtuse apiculum, margin entire or slightly undulate, lateral veins rather indistinct, steeply ascending; petiole to 10 mm. Monoecious. Inflorescences axillary, supra-axillary or terminal, glabrous, singly or in groups, either few-flowered cymes or more branched open, cymose, panicles up to 8 cm long; pedicels slender, 20-45 mm; male flowers on lower branches. Male flowers cup-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, 2 mm ø; rounded tepals widely open; stamens 4 in outer whorl and 4 smaller stamens at centre, filaments strap-shaped, glabrous. Female flowers subglobose, c. 3 mm long, 2.5 mm ø; tepals 6, rounded, inner rim of ostiole with pendulous glands; carpels c. 10, glabrous, stigma obtuse. Infructescence with somewhat thickened pedicels and a woody receptacle c. 15 mm ø (including short thick stipes). Drupes ovoid, c. 15 by 10 mm when dry, shortly stipitate.
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