Small tree to 7 m, young shoots softly and densely pubescent. Leaves narrowly oblong or oblong, stiffly chartaceous, 8-16 by 2.5-4.7 cm, base truncate to shallowly cordate, apex narrowed into indistinct acute apiculum, margin entire, becoming glabrous above, soft pubescence persisting below, midrib channelled above, prominent below, lateral veins arched and meeting within the margin, prominent, reticulation well defined; petiole 4-7 mm, densely short pubescent. Monoecious. Inflorescences axil-lary; male and female flowers in separate inflorescences. Male inflorescence consisting of elongated rachises, c. 8 cm long, setulose, bearing many pairs of subulate bracts. Female inflorescences shorter (c. 4.5 cm long), peduncle c. 3.5 cm long, ending in a dichasium. Male flowers in axils of bracts, apparently arising in acropetal sequence and soon caducous, pedicel c. 4 mm long, setulose; receptacle obovoid, c. 3.5 mm long, hairy outside; tepals 6, rounded or mucronate; stamens 4 outer and c. 2 inner, c. 0.75 mm long, anthers triangular with very short narrow filaments. Female flowers glo-bose, c. 4 mm Ø, densely tomentose. Fruiting receptacle c. 8 mm Ø, setulose, without stipes. Drupes not seen.
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