Tree 18-20 m tall, the trunk 12.5-25 cm in diam, the wood hard, the branchlets puberulous. Leaves pendent on branches, the petioles 5 mm long, puberulous-villous, the stipules narrowly triangular, ca 4 mm long and 1 mm wide at the base, fugacious; blade narrowly ovate-oblong to narrowly oblong, the base sub-oblique to markedly oblique, obtuse to rounded on one side and acute to obtuse on the other side, the apex long-acuminate, the acumen slender, the margins ser-rulate, 6-13 cm long and 1.5-4.5 cm wide, membranous to thin-chartaceous, densely pellucid-punctate, shining especially above, minutely puberulous on both sides, the costa prominent and the lateral veins prominulous beneath. Inflorescences axillary, densely fasciculate, the bracts numerous, small, ca 1 mm long, persistent, forming cushions in the axils of the leaves. Flowers white, the pedicels filiform, to 4 mm long, articulated ca 1 mm above the base, minutely puberulous; sepals 5, free or nearly so, ? obovate, slightly cucullate, rounded at the apex, ca 1.8-2 mm long and 1-1.3 mm wide, membranous, erect at anthesis, minutely puberulous out-side; stamens 10, exserted, uniseriate, the filaments filiform, ? equal, 2-2.5 mm long, glabrous, the anthers ca 0.3 mm long; ovary subglobose, ca 0.7-0.8 mm in diam, glabrous, each placenta 2-ovulate, the style ca 1.3 mm long, shortly but distinctly 3-fid at the apex, the branches each 0.2 mm long, the stigmas 3, slightly enlarged. Capsule unknown.
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