Tree or shrub 3-10 m. Twigs l-1.5(-2) mm diameter, at first with woolly yellowish to rusty hairs 0.5 mm long, glabrescent; bark smooth or finely striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves herbaceous or chartaceous, ovate to obovate, or oblong(-lanceolate), occasionally faintly lobed in the upper part, base attenuate to subobtuse, apex acute (-acuminate); drying greenish above, lower surface greyish, at first with soft hairs 0.2 mm long, late glabrescent; dots absent; midrib ± raised above; nerves 10-20 pairs, ± raised above, often brownish; venation distinct; petiole 5-15 by 0.7-1.5 mm. Inflorescences: peduncle up to 1 mm long, brachyblast usually simple, slender, to 10 mm long; in male 5-25-flowered, in female 2-6-flowered; flowers with greyish to rusty hairs 0.2-0.4 mm long; perianth 3-lobed, reddish (?) inside. Male flowers: pedicel 2-4.5 mm long, bracteole late caducous, median to apical; buds globose, 2-2.5 by 2-2.5(-3?) mm, cleft over 2/3, lobes 0.3-0.5 mm thick; staminal disc flat or occasionally low-mammillate, circular to faintly angled 1.2-1.5 mm diameter; anthers 6-9, just sessile or distinctly stiped, 0.3-0.5 mm long, ± horizontal, not touching; androphore slender, 0.7-1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 0.5-2 mm long, bracteole about median; buds ± ellipsoid, 4 mm long, cleft 1/2-2/3, lobes 0.4 mm thick; ovary ovoid, 1.5 by 1.2-1.5 mm; stigma subsessile, (1-) or 2-lobed and each lobe again 3-5-lobulate. Fruits 1 or 2 per infructes-cence, ellipsoid, apex subacute, 1.3-1.5 by 0.8-0.9 cm, with scurfy hairs 0.1 mm long or less; dry pericarp 1 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 1-3 mm long.
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