Shrub or small tree, rarely up to 10 m and 20 cm Ø; bark smooth, grey-green. Branches hanging. Branchlets striately-angular, early corticate, tips slender and short-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes oblong, apex sub-acutely acuminate and often falcate for 2-3 cm, base much narrowed, membranous, light green, dull, glabrous or sometimes with sparse fine short hairs on the undersurface and/or the midrib, showing numerous fine pores against strong light, the undersurface mostly set with fine tubercles, (5-)8-13(-20) by (1-)2-4(-8) cm, variable in size, edge subentire, midrib distinctly, nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves (4-)5-6 (rarely-8) spreading pairs, reticulation practically obscure; petiole slender, (0.6-)1-1.5 cm. Peduncles axillary and pseudoterminal, very slender, 2-4(-7) cm, short-hairy as are the partial inflorescences, these cy-mose, ultimate ones umbellate and few-flowered, pedicels very short. ♂ Flowers: Buds obovate. Calyx cupular, 1 mm. Petals oblong, finally re-flexed, glabrous, greenish-whitish, 2(-2.5) mm. ♀ Flowers: Buds subglobose. Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Ovary oblongoid, 2 mm. Drupe subovate-oblong, flat and curved, base obtuse-truncate and hollow, apex gradually attenuate and subacute, 1.2-1.5 by 0.5-0.6(-0.7) cm, glossy, with a fleshy oblong whitish appendage on the much depressed ventral, and a marked longitudinal distinct rib parallel with a few lateral less distinct ones on the dorsal (convex) face.
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