Small sparsely branched shrub usually under 3 m high, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-oblong or narrowly obovate, 17 by 6.5 cm, coriaceous, base cuneate, apex apiculate, apiculum obtuse or acute, margin obscurely and irregularly dentate, midrib prominent, lateral veins numerous and close-set, at first straight but curved and uniting near the margin, glabrous; petiole 15 by 2.5 mm, channelled above. Monoecious. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal pleiochasium, rachis c. 4 cm, peduncle c. 18 mm long, bracteate at the base, the opposite pairs of pedicels also subtended by bracts; pedicels c. 5 mm, becoming thickened and elongating in female flowers after an-thesis. Male flowers ovoid, c. 1 mm Ø, ostiole sur-rounded by 3 pairs of obtuse tepals; stamens 4 insert-ed halfway up the receptacle, with 2 small central staminodes. Female flowers not seen. Fruiting receptacle woody, c. 8 mm Ø. Drupes c. 12-15 shortly stipitate, ellipsoid, c. 16 by 11 mm (when dry).
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