Tree c. 8 m. Twigs 1-1.5 mm diameter, at first with dense rusty hairs of variable sizes, 0.2-0.7 mm long, glabrescent; bark smooth or very finely striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves chartaceous, oblong(-lanceolate), 5.5—12(—15) by 1.5-3.5 cm, base (sub) attenuate, apex acute or up to 2 cm acute-acuminate; drying brown above; lower surface brownish grey, at first with conspicuous dense rusty mixed sessile and dendroid hairs 0.2-0.7 mm long, early or late glabrescent; dots present (lens!); midrib slender, raised above; nerves 7-14 pairs, slender, raised; venation fine, visible above; petiole 7-10 by 1.5 mm. Inflorescences: peduncle up to 2 mm long, brachyblast simple or 2-or 3-forked, to 3 mm long; in male (1-or) 2-8-flowered; flowers with persistent rusty woolly hairs 0.2-0.5 mm long; perianth 3-lobed, colour inside not known. Male flowers: pedicel 2-3 mm long, bracteole ± persistent, ± median; buds subglobose or broadly obovoid, 2-2.5 mm diameter, cleft c. 3/4, lobes 0.5 mm thick; staminal disc flat, circular, 1-1.3 mm diameter; anthers 6-8, ± stiped, ± horizontal to oblique, 0.3(-0.5) mm long, spaced; androphore 0.7-1 mm long. Female flowers not known. Fruits solitary, obovoid-oblong, apex shortly acute-mucronate, 1.7-1.8 by 1 cm, with hairs 0.3 mm long; dry pericarp 0.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 6-7 mm long, with the scar of the bracteole ± median.
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