Twigs 1-2 mm diameter, with fine, pale grey-brown or yellowish brown scurfy indumentum; bark coarsely striate or ridged, later on longitudinally cracking and flaking. Leaves narrow, 11-22 by 2-5 cm; drying pale (greenish) brown above, midrib pale, venation fine, distinct, whitish beneath. Male flowers: pedicel short, with pale hairs; buds more or less depressed obovoid; staminal disc rather flat or slightly convex; anthers 10. Female flowers: buds 5 mm long. Fruits (sub)sessile, subglobose, ellipsoid, or obovoid, 1.4-2(-3.5, see note) cm long, with bright (yellowish) brown indumentum.
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