Tree 5-25 m. Twigs ± flattened or blunt-triangular, 1.5-2 mm diameter, at first with short farinose yellow-brown, reddish, or pale rusty hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long, glabrescent; bark smooth, then striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, (5-)8-25 by 2-5(-8.5) cm, base attenuate, rarely rounded, apex acute-acuminate, drying greenish or brown, often with a very fine-pitted structure a'bove, (lens!), lower surface greyish, with a reddish tinge, glabrescent except for the basal part of the midrib with farinose stellate scale-like hairs; dots absent; midrib raised above; nerves (10-) 15-25 pairs, ± raised above; venation faint or distinct; petiole late glabrescent, 6-11 by 1.5-2.5 mm. Inflorescences: peduncle up to 1 mm long, brachy-blast simple or 2-or 3-fid, to 5 mm long; in male 5-10-flowered, female 2-5-flowered; flowers with rusty hairs 0.1-0.2 mm long; perianth 3-lobed, reddish inside. Male flowers: pedicel 3.5-4.5 mm long, bracteole subpersistent, about median; buds (depressed) globose, 2-3 by 2-4 mm, cleft c. 4/5, lobes 0.8 mm thick; staminal disc slightly convex or low-mammillate, circular, 2-2.2 mm diameter; anthers 10-12, shortly stiped, horizontal, 0.4 mm long, spaced; androphore 0.6-1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 1.5-3 mm long, the bracteole subapical; buds ellipsoid to oblong, 3-3.5 by 2-2.5 mm, cleft c. 1/2, lobes 0.5 mm thick; ovary ovoid-globose, 1.5 mm diameter, stigma subsessile, faintly 2-lobed and each lobe again shallowly 1-3-lobulate. Fruits 1-4 per infructescence, ellipsoid, base and apex obtuse or subacute, 1.1-2.1 by 1.2-2 cm, with mealy yellowish brown or rusty hairs 0.2 mm long; dry pericarp 1.5-2 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 2-7 mm long.
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