Tree 9-13½ m high and 15-30 cm ø. Bark grey or brown, scaly. Branchlets puberulous. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 10½-16½ by 3¼-5 cm, glabrous above, slightly puberulous on midrib and nerves beneath; not papillose beneath; base cuneate or attenuate; apex acuminate or caudate; nerves 11-15 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct below, obscure above; petiole slightly thickened at the lower ½-⅔, ¾-1¼ cm, puberulous. Panicles terminal or axillary, 5-6 cm long, puberulous; bracts triangular, ½-1½ mm long. Flowers (♂) yellow, sessile, 2-2½ mm long. Hypanthium ½-¾ mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, c. ⅔ mm long. Petals elliptic-oblong, or oblanceolate, 1-1½ by ½-⅔ mm, slightly longitudinally thickened at the central part inside. Stamens 1⅓ mm; filaments free, reddish brown, sometimes whitish at the apical part; anthers ⅓-½ mm long. Disk 5-notched. Abortive pistil 0 in ♂, replaced by a tuft of hairs. ♀ Flowers not seen. Drupe subglobose, c. 1¼ cm ø, thinly velvety; apex obtuse or rounded.
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