Tree 10-20 m. Twigs 2-3 mm diameter, at first with minute scale-like hairs 0.1 mm long or less, very early glabrescent; bark finely striate, not tending to crack or flake. Leaves membranous or chartaceous, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 12-30 by 4.5-12 cm, apex obtuse to acute-acuminate, base rounded, subtruncate, or short-attenuate, drying greenish to brown above; lower surface greyish, at first with inconspicuous scale-like hairs 0.1 mm long or less, early glabrescent, sometimes with minute lanose hairs at blade edge near the base, soon glabrescent; dots absent; midrib ± flat or raised above; nerves 17-22 pairs, ± flat above; venation (aréoles 1 mm diameter or more) distinct; petiole 12-16 by 1.5-3 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple or forked, to 8 mm long; in male 10-20-flowered, female l-5(?)-flowered; flowers with greyish brown hairs less than 0.1 mm long; perianth 3-(or 4-)lobed, red inside. Male flowers: pedicel 10-11 mm long, bracteole 1 mm long, at or above median, persistent or late caducous; buds subglobose, 3-4 mm diameter, cleft c. 4/5, lobes 0.5-0.8 mm thick; staminal disc slightly convex, finely papillate, circular, 2-2.5 mm diameter; anthers 12-18, distinctly stiped, spaced, horizontal, 0.3-0.4 mm long (connective narrow above, thecae opening ± laterally); androphore 1-1.2 mm long. Female flower (from aged flowers in Korthals s.n.): pedicel 2-4 mm long, bracteole median to subapical, subpersistent; buds obovoid-ellipsoid, 4 by 2.5 mm, cleft slightly over 1/2; ovary ovoid, 1.5 by 1 mm, stigma sessile, 2-lobed and each lobe again 3-or 4-lobulate. Fruits 1-3 per infructescence, ovoid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid-oblong, apex and base subacute, 3-4 by 1.4-2 cm, at first with minute indumentum, early glabrescent, leaving a finely granulate surface; dry pericarp 3 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 3-6 mm long.
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