Treelet, 2-5 m. Twigs bluntly angular, 1-1.5 mm diameter, with dense rusty hairs 0.5 mm, glabrescent; bark (yellow-)brown, finely striate, not or faintly finely cracking. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 6-18 by 1—3(—4) cm, base cuneate, rarely nearly rounded, apex acute, early glabrescent, at first with dense woolly yellow-brown hairs 0.5 mm; drying dull greenish above, lower surface grey-green; dots absent; midrib raised above, nerves 10-20 per side, slightly raised, beneath yellow-brown, contrasting; venation fine, not prominent; petiole 5-10 by 1(—1.5) mm. Inflorescences: among the leaves, sessile, brachyblast simple (or 2-or 3-furcate), wart-or worm-like, 1-5 mm long; in male 1-3-flowered, female 1-or 2-flowered; flowers with dense hairs, 0.5 mm; perianth 3-lobed, red inside. Male flowers: pedicel 1.5(-2) by 0.5 mm, bracteole persistent, at 1/3 below apex; buds globose, 1.5-1.8 by 2-2.2 mm, cleft c. 4/5, lobes 0.3 mm thick; staminal disc flat, subcircular, 1-1.5 mm diameter, anthers 7-10, shortly stiped, 0.3-0.5 mm, opening outward; androphore slender, 0.5-0.8 mm. Female flower (from remnants under immature fruits): subsessile, 1.5-3 mm long. Fruits 1 (or 2) per infructescence, obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.2-2 by 0.8-1 cm, with dense bright (yellow) rusty hairs 0.5-1 mm; dry pericarp thin, 1 mm or less; fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 mm long.
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