Shrub or small tree; young parts minutely puberulous and soon becoming glabrous. Leaves opposite or subopposite, elliptical, chartaceous, c. 19 by 9 cm (all damaged), base broadly cuneate, apex not present, margin entire, midrib prominent below, lateral veins strongly arched-ascending; petiole stout, c. 10-12 mm, channelled above. Inflorescences axillary, central rachis c. 8 cm, lateral branches in opposite pairs or 3-4 at the same level, usually again branched about the middle; pedicels slender, elongated (up to 45 mm). Male flowers obovoid, 3 mm long, with 4 rounded tepals surrounding a widely open ostiole (sometimes another pair of tepals (bracts) about the middle of the receptacle), 4 large stamens and c. 3 smaller stamens in the centre; filaments wide, strap-shaped, c. 2 mm long, wider than the small triangular anthers. Female flowers and fruit not seen.
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