Tree 9-24 m high and 12½-2 ø. Bark smooth. Branchlets light yellowish white or light greyish, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong or-lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 6-14 by 2-5 cm, glabrous; papillae on the lower surface very compact, obscure (rarely fine and compact on young leaves); base attenuate or cuneate; apex shortly acuminate to acuminate, sometimes acute; nerves 6-15 pairs, veins reticulate, distinct beneath, rather faint above; petiole in the lower half slightly thickened, l-2½ cm, glabrous. Panicles terminal or axillary, 6-15 cm long, puberulous; bracts triangular, ½-l mm long; pedicels ½-1½ mm. Flowers yellow, 4 mm long. Hypanthium ⅓-¾ mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, 1-1¼ mm long. Petals elliptic, oblong, ovate, or obovate-oblong. l⅔—3 by ⅔-1¾ mm, slightly longitudinally thickened at the central part inside. Stamens 2¼ mm; filaments free, brown except whitish at the apical part; anthers ⅔ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ c. 1 mm. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary globose, c. 1 mm Ø; style c. ⅔ mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ very small, c. ⅓ mm long, glabrous. Drupe unknown.
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