Shrub 1-3 m. Branchlets initially sparsely tomentose by fulvous, adpressed stellate hairs, later glabrous, blackish brown; terminal buds ovoid, c. 1 by ⅔ mm, scales ovate. Stipules linear, c. 2 by ½ mm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, rigid, (2-)3-3½ (-4½) by (2-)2½(-3) cm (index 1-1½), broadest about the middle; surfaces more or less concolor-ous, chocolate-brown, above glabrous, glossy, with some minute glands, underneath with a thin cover of minute, adpressed stellate hairs, subgla-brescent; base rounded to subcordate, top round-ed-emarginate; midrib thin, prominent on both sides; nerves 8-10 pairs, obscure, parallel, at an angle of c. 60°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, areolate, obscure; petiole c. 3 mm, 2 mm ø, glabrous, adax-ially flat. (Inflorescence not known.) Fruiting rachis (young) c. 3 cm, 5 mm ø, carrying more than 10 subglobose young cupules. Cupule (not yet ripe) sessile, cup-shaped, c. 8 mm long, 2 cm ø; rim thin, covering c. ⅓ part of the fruit; wall thin, woody, inside densely tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, outside densely fulvous stellate hairy, hairs minute, adpressed; lamellae thin, 5-6, concentric. Fruit (not yet ripe) depressed-ovoid, 1 cm long, 1⅔ cm ø, glabrous, dark chocolate-brown; wall woody, c. 1 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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