Shrub or tree 4-20 m, 18-30 cm ø. Branchlets initially densely rufous tomentose by scurfy stellate hairs, later glabrous, whitish grey to blackish brown, sparsely to densely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid, 3 by 1 mm, scales ovate. Stipules narrowly ovate-acute or deltoid, ½-1by ½ mm, soon caducous. Leaves thin-coriaceous, rigid, (5-)7-9(-10½) by (2½-)3-4(-6) cm (index 1.6-2.5), broadest about the middle; surfaces discolorous, above glabrous, glossy, pale to dark chocolate-brown, rarely greyish green, underneath densely glaucous tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs; base acute to cuneate, decurrent, margin recurved, top bluntly ½-2½ cm acuminate-caudate; midrib prominent on both sides; nerves (7-)8-10(-12) pairs, prominent beneath, flat to impressed above, subparallel, at an angle of 45-50°, arcuating and anastomosing near the margin; reticulation dense, fine, scalariform, distinct beneath; petiole glabrous, ½-1½ cm, 1-2 mm ø, adaxially flat or furrowed. Inflorescence male or mixed, densely fulvous to rufous stellate hairy, simple and axillary or much-branched and subterminal; bracts and bracteoles ovate, ½-1 by ½ rnm. Male rachis 5-15 cm, 1½ mm ø; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3, rarely solitary, stamens 10-12, filaments 2-3 mm, anthers 0.20-0.30 mm long, pistillode globose, c. 1 mm ø. Mixed rachis 5-10 cm, 1½-mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes rudimentary, styles 3, conical, c. 1 mm. Ripe cupule sessile to 3 mm stalked, deeply cup-shaped, 8-13 mm long, 15-25 mm ø; rim thin, covering ¼-⅓ part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely whitish grey simple tomentose, outside densely greyish to fulvous stellate hairy; lamellae 5-6, denticulate, concentric, thin to prominent. Ripe fruit ovoid, 1½-2 cm in size, densely greyish tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs; top rounded-acuminate, base rounded, scar strongly convex to flat, 9-15 mm ø; wall woody, c. 1 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule; cotyledons flat-convex.
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