Evergreen shrub or tree, up to c. 15(-22) m. Flowering twigs pubescent when young, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or obovate to lanceolate, 2-32 by 0.7-12(-18)cm, index (1.2-)1.5-3(-4), at the base acute, at apex acute to caudate, rarely obtuse, usually entire, sometimes remotely spinously dentate towards the apex, beneath sometimes pubescent on midrib and nerves, without domatia; nerves 7-15 pairs, usually strongly ascending, petioles usually rather long, 1-10 cm, 1/5-⅓ as long as the blade. Panicles usually axillary and erect, widely to usually narrowly pyramidal, 3-30(-200) cm, usually densely pubescent, bearing numerous solitary to crowded flowers which are sometimes spicately arranged; side-axes usually many, usually short, up to c. 15 (-40) cm, sometimes subtended by normal to small leaves; bracts ovate to linear-lanceolate, up to c. 2(-6) mm, usually densely pubescent. Pedicels absent or present, up to c. 3(-5) mm. Mature buds 1.5-3 mm diam. Sepals (4) 5, (round-)ovate, sub-equal, 1-2 mm, or the outer 1 or 2 smaller, often one lowered on the pedicel, all entire, ciliolate. Outer petals glabrous. Inner petals ± lanceolate and entire, or bifid, (0.6-)0.8-2.5 mm, glabrous or somewhat ciliolate at margin or tip, when bifid never with a central lobule. Filaments 0.7-1.5 mm. Ovary 0.5-1 mm, very exceptionally pubescent. Fruit (sub)glo-bose, sometimes elliptic, when ripe 5-10 mm diam.; endocarp globose to ellipsoid, 6-8(-9) mm diam., usually with a slightly elevated rather fine reticulum; median keel distinct, more or less prominent; ventral pore whether or not sunken but never spouted.
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