Evergreen trees, 8-15 m tall, 30-40 cm d.b.h. Bark gray, scaly peeled off, with collated spots exposed. Branchlets glabrous or densely gray-yellow villous. Leaves alternate; petiole 6-22 mm, glabrous or hairy; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, obovate-lanceolate, oblong, or lanceolate, 4.5-9.5 × 1.4-4 cm, glabrous or villous on both surfaces, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, base cuneate, apex obtuse-acuminate or acute. Umbels axillary, 3-or 4-flowered; peduncle very short or absent. Male flowers: pedicel stout and short, densely villous; perianth segments 6, ovate or elliptic; fertile stamens 9; filaments villous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate sagittate glands at base; rudimentary pistil lacking. Fruit subglobose, 7-8 mm in diam., seated on flat perianth tube; perianth segments persistent; fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. summer of next year.
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