Tree 3-10 m. Twigs 2-4 mm diameter, looking as 4-6 mm diameter because of the dense cloth of yellow-brown or dark rusty ± shaggy hairs 2-3 mm long, late glabrescent; bark reddish brown, thinly and finely flaking. Leaves chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, 13-25 by 3-6 cm, base narrowly rounded or cuneate, apex acute-acuminate; drying olivaceous or greenish above, lower surface greyish, early glabrescent, with midrib and nerves brown-yellow, contrasting; dots absent; midrib narrow, pale, much raised above; lateral nerves 10-15 per side, raised; venation distinct at both surfaces; petiole 10-15 by 1.5-2 mm, reddish brown, transversely wrinkled when dry, at first with dense yellow-brown or rusty hairs 2-4 m, contrasting with the early glabrescent leaf blades; leaf buds short, 5(-10) mm long, looking bluntish by a dense cloth. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple or forked, to 5(-10) mm long, late glabrescent, in male with clusters of 2-6 long-pubescent flowers. Male flowers: with dense, rough, yellow-brown or rusty hairs (2-)4 mm, appearing as mops 6-8 mm in diameter; perianth 3-lobed, colour inside not known; pedicel 3-4 mm, bracteole oblong, 0.5-1 mm long, long-pubescent like pedicel and perianth, at 0.5-1 mm below the apex; buds subglobose, 3.5-4 mm diameter, cleft c. 1/2, lobes 0.5 mm thick; staminal disc flat, blunt-subtriangular, 1.5 (-2) mm diameter; anthers 15-18, lateral, contiguous, sessile, suberect; androphore short, tapering, 1 mm long, glabrous. Female flowers and fruits not known.
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