Treelet c. 4 m. Twigs 1.5-2 mm in diameter, yellowish brown, at first with hairs 0.5 (-1) mm, glabrescent; bark smooth or finely striate, not cracking nor flaking; lenticels minute. Leaves thinly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 12-20 by 3.5-7 cm, base short-attenuate, apex ± blunt or (acute-)acuminate; upper surface drying green-olivaceous; lower surface slightly paler, glabrous, not or but little papillose; dots absent; midrib slender above, nerves 12-15 per side, flat or slightly raised above; venation fine, distinct at both surfaces. Petiole 10 by 2 mm. Inflorescences: sessile or pedunculate to 1.5 mm, brachyblast wart-like, 1-2 mm long, pubescent, glabrescent; in male and femaie 2-5-flowered; flowers with rusty hairs (0.2-)0.5-0.7 mm, perianth 3-lobed, colour inside not known. Male flowers: pedicel 6-7 mm long, slender, bracteole less than 1 mm, subpersistent, slightly above median; buds ± depressed globose, 3 by 4 mm, cleft 3/4(-4/5), lobes 0.5 mm thick; staminal disc circular, flat, 2 mm in diameter; anthers 14 or 15, sessile, 0.3 mm, not tightly contiguous, under the rim of the disc, androphore tapering, narrow at base, 0.5-0.8 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 4 mm; buds obovoid, 3.5 mm long; ovary not seen. Fruits 2-4 per infructescence (slightly immature), ovoid-oblong, 2.5-3 by 1.5-1.6 cm, base ± truncate or broadly rounded, apex narrowly rounded, with stigma remnant, 1 mm, dry pericarp 0.5(-l) mm thick, with rusty mealy hairs 0.5 mm; fruiting pedicel 7-10 mm long, scar of bracteole ± median.
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