Tree up to 12 m high. Branchlets brown or dark brown, pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong to narrowly elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, 6-27½ by 2-8 cm, shining above, rather dull beneath, glabrous; not papillose on the lower surface; base cuneate to attenuate; apex shortly acuminate, sometimes cuspidate; nerves 8-23 pairs, veins reticulate, some transverse and slightly parallel, distinct below, faint above; petiole (the lower ⅓-½ slightly thickened) 1-3 cm, glabrous. Panicles terminal or axillary, up to 23 cm long, pubescent; bracts deltoid, ⅔-1½ rnm long. Flowers subsessile, 4 mm long. Hypanthium 1 mm long. Calyx lobes deltoid, 1 mm long. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, 2¼-3 by 1 mm, flat. Stamens 2-2½ mm; filaments brown, basal ½ mm laterally united with the petals; anthers ½ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens c. 1½ mm. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm ø; style c. 1 mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ conical, c. ½ mm long, hairy. Drupe broadly ellipsoid, 1½ by 1 cm, pubescent or scurfy; apex obtuse.
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