Leaves elliptic, rarely oblong, 3-15 by 1.5-9 cm, usually entire, base acute to rounded and somewhat attenuate, cuspidate, above glabrous or ± pubescent on the midrib, subglabrous beneath, usually with a white waxy layer beneath, which gives a glaucous appearance; nerves 8-14 pairs; petiole 1-7.5 cm. Panicles terminal or axillary, solitary or a few together, 5-15 cm, rather poor and lax, ramified up to the 2nd (3rd) order; primary (essentially secondary!) side-axes up to c. 8 cm. Mature buds 2-2.5 mm diam. Inner petals halfway or somewhat less bifid, 1-1.2 mm; lobes rather narrow. Endocarp ± obovoid, c. 8 mm long, c. 6 mm diam., with rather wide and feeble reticulum; median keel only slightly elevated, blunt, at one end running out into a minute ventral processus; ventral pore wide, not sunken.
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