Tree 3-20 m. Twigs 1-2 mm diameter, at first with rusty stellate scale-like hairs 0.1 mm long or less, glabrescent; bark finely striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves membranous, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 7-21 by 2-7 cm, base cuneate-attenuate to rounded, apex up to 2.5 cm acute-acuminate; greenish brown above, grey-glaucous beneath, at first with sparse, greyish, scale-like hairs, 0.1 mm long or less, glabrescent; dots absent; midrib raised above; nerves 14-20 pairs, raised above; venation very fine, prominent and distinct above; petiole 7-15 by 1.5-2.5 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple or bifurcate, to 5 mm long; in male 3-15-flowered, female 1-6-flow-ered; flowers with persistent grey-rusty hairs 0.1 mm long or less; perianth 3-(or 4-) lobed, cream-coloured inside (always?). Male flowers: pedicel 7-15 mm long, bracteole caducous, median or above; buds (depressed) globose, 3-4.5 mm diameter, cleft c. 4/5, lobes 0.6-1.2 mm thick; the staminal disc flat, circular or subtriangular, 2-2.3 mm in diameter; anthers 9-13, shortly stiped, horizontal, 0.3-0.5 mm long, spaced; androphore 0.5-1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 6-10 mm long, bracteole (somewhat above) median; buds 4-5 by 2.5-3.5 mm, cleft 1/2-2/3; lobes 1-1.5 mm thick; ovary ovoid, 1.5-2 mm long; style to 0.5 mm long; stigma erect, irregularly peltate, 5-lobed. Fruits 1-3 per infructescence, ellipsoid or obovoid, apex subobtuse, base often narrowed, 1.2-1.6 by 0.8-1 cm, with mealy hairs 0.2-0.4 mm long; dry pericarp 1-1.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel (4-)6-15 mm long.
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