Tree 6-10 m. Twigs 1—1.5(—2) mm diameter, slightly angular, glabrescent, hairs 0.1 mm or less, grey-brown, scale-like; older twigs blackish, striate, but not cracking or flaking; lenticels not apparent. Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous (brittle), ± ovate-elliptic or oblong, 5-12 by 1.5-5 cm, base (short-)attenuate, apex up to 1 cm acute-acuminate; upper surface brown, lower surface bright brown, early glabrescent; not papillose; dots distinct; midrib slender, raised above, lateral nerves 10-15 per side, at 60-70° to the midrib, slender, sunken above, little raised or ± flat below, generally with inter-secondary nerves, lines of interarching and venation indistinct; petiole 8-15 by 1-1.5 mm; leaf bud acute, 5-10 by 1-1.5 mm, hairs brown-grey, less than 0.1 mm. Inflorescences axillary or to 4 mm supra-axillary, between the leaves or below, early glabrescent, indumentum minute, peduncle slightly flattened, smooth, 5-10 by 1-1.5 mm, ending in a short scar-covered brachyblast; bracts minute, minutely pubescent, late caducous; male inflorescences: brachyblast to 13 mm long, flowers 1-4, buds of different sizes; female inflorescences: 1-or 2-(or 3-)flowered; flowers with sparse brown-grey hairs 0.1 mm or less. Male flowers: pedicel 3-4 by 0.5 mm, bracteole broadly ovate, 0.5(—1) mm, caducous; buds ± ellipsoid-oblong, somewhat parallel-sided (or faintly narrowed in the middle), 3.5-4 by (1.5—)2 mm, apex ± blunt, not angled, base broadly rounded, cleft 1/4-1/3, lobes ± membranous, 1.5 mm long, 0.3 mm thick. Androecium 3-3.5 mm; androphore 1.5-2 by 0.5-0.6 mm, glabrous; synandrium ellipsoid-oblong, 1.5 by 0.6-0.7(-0.8) mm, thecae 10-12, not tightly appressed, sterile apex subtruncate, 0.2 mm. Female flowers not seen. Fruits generally solitary, ellipsoid-oblong, 3 by 1.5 cm, apex acute, base contracted into a pseudostalk up to 5 mm long, hairs dull-brown, scurfy, less than 0.1 mm; pericarp l(-2) mm thick; seeds ellipsoid-oblong, 2.3 cm; stalk (including fruiting pedicel) slender, 1-1.5 cm, bracteole scar 2-3 mm below the apex.
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