Tree 5-20 m. Twigs 1.5-2.5(-3) mm in diameter, at first with ± woolly or scurfy rusty hairs 0.2-0.5 mm long, glabrescent; bark finely striate or smooth, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves chartaceous, rarely faintly lobed in the upper part, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 10-23(-35) by 3-7(-10) cm, base rounded to attenuate, apex acute(-acuminate), rarely obtuse; greenish or brown above; lower surface at first with greyish, loose, soft-stellate hairs 0.1-0.3 mm long, glabrescent, longer persistent on midrib and nerves; dots absent; midrib ± raised above; nerves (12-)15-20(-22) pairs, ± flat above, often brownish beneath; venation faint or distinct; petiole early or late glabrescent, 5-15 by 1-3 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple, sometimes forked, up to 8 by 6 mm; in male 4-20-flowered, in female 3-10-flowered; flowers with greyish brown or rusty hairs 0.2-0.5 mm long; perianth 3-lobed, pink or red inside. Male flowers: pedicel 4-11 mm long, bracteole caducous, ± median; buds (depressed) globose, 3-5 mm in diameter, cleft nearly to the base, lobes 0.3-0.7 mm thick; staminal disc ± flat, slightly convex, or low mam-millate, circular, 2-2.5 mm in diameter, anthers 9—13(—15), sessile to stiped, horizontal, 0.5 mm long, not touching; androphore slender, 1-2 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 2-4 mm long, bracteole ± median; buds ellipsoid-obovoid, 5 mm long, cleft about halfway, lobes 0.5-0.7 mm thick; ovary ovoid, 2 mm long; stigma ± sessile, with 2 lobes and each lobe again 5-or 6-lobulate. Fruits 1-3 per infructescence, subglobose or globose-ellipsoid, obtuse, 1.5-2.5(-3) by 1.2-2.3 cm, with greyish brown, scurfy hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long; dry pericarp 1.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel (2-)4-6(-10) mm long.
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