Tree 4-6 m. Twigs 4-5 mm diameter, with dense, dark brown, coarse hairs 1-2 mm long, late glabrescent; bark blackish brown, finely striate, not cracking nor flaking, inconspicuously lenticellate. Leaves (thinly) chartaceous, oblong, 15-35 by 4-10 cm, base narrowly rounded or cuneate, apex (acute-)acuminate; olivaceous or bright brown above; lower surface pale brown or grey-brown, minutely papillose, with sparse but conspicuous stellate and stellate-dendroid hairs 0.5-1.5 mm, sometimes late glabrescent; dots present (lens!); midrib raised above, nerves 14-18 pairs, raised, venation distinct at both surfaces; petiole 6-14 by 2.5-4 mm, late glabrescent. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast wart-like or slenderly worm-like, simple or 2-(or 3-)armed, to 12 mm long, with woolly rusty stellate hairs 0.5-1 mm, late glabrescent, in male with 10-25 clustered flowers; flowers with dense woolly stellate and stellate-dendroid hairs 0.5-1 mm long, perianth 4-lobed, pink inside. Male flowers: pedicel 4-5 mm long, slender or thickish, bracteole 1 mm long or less, 1-1.5 mm below the apex, caducous; buds (slightly immature) sub-globose, 2 mm diameter, cleft 3/4-4/5, lobes carnose, at base enclosing the androecium; staminal disc flat or slightly convex, circular, 1-1.7 mm diameter, anthers 7 or 8, short-stiped, spaced, each 4-sporangiate (each with 2 thecae), androphore hardly 0.5 mm long. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 2.5-3 by 1.7-2 cm, obtuse, with hairs 0.5-1 mm, fruiting pedicel 10 mm.
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