Tree 10-25 m. Twigs 2-5 mm in diameter, at first with dense rusty hairs 0.2-1 mm long, glabrescent; bark coarsely striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, oblong to lanceolate, 10-30 by 3-12 cm, base subcordate to cuneate, apex subobtuse or acute-acuminate; above glossy (greenish) brown, with distinct hair scars above or not; lower surface greyish or glaucous, finely papillate, and with scattered minute brownish black dots especially on the veinlets (lens!), with persistent indumentum of mixed sessile-stellate and stalked stellate-dendroid hairs of variable size, (0.2-)0.3-l mm long; midrib raised above; nerves 12-28 pairs, ± raised; venation ± fine, distinct; petiole 5-15 by 1.5-5 mm, late glabrescent. Inflorescences: peduncle up to 1 mm, brachy-blast simple or 2-(to 3-)furcate, up to 15 mm long; in male (5-)10-40-flowered, in female up to 10-flowered; flowers with dull rusty hairs (0.1-)0.2-0.3 mm long, perianth 3-lobed, greenish or yellowish inside. Male flowers: pedicel 7-15 mm long, bracteole ± persistent or caducous, about the middle or above; buds subglobose, often ± triangular, 4-4.5 mm in diameter, cleft nearly to the base, lobes 1-1.5 mm thick; staminal disc flat to slightly convex, circular, or ± triangular, 2-3 mm in diameter; anthers (10—)12—17, (just) stiped, horizontal, 0.3-0.7 mm long, spaced; androphore 0.8-1.5 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 5-10 mm long, bracteole about the middle or above; buds obovoid, 5 mm long, cleft about halfway, lobes 1-1.5 mm thick; ovary subglobose to ovoid, 1.5-2 mm in diameter; style 0-1 mm long, stigma 3-or 2-lobed and each lobe again 2-5-lobulate. Fruits 1-5 per infructescence, subglobose, ellipsoid or obovoid, (1.5-)2-4 by (1—)2—3 cm, hairs 0.5 mm long, later on largely shed; dry pericarp 2-5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 5-10 mm long.
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