Tree 8-10 m. Twigs 1-1.5 mm diameter, brown-yellow, early glabrescent, hairs greyish, less than 0.1 mm; older twigs brown blackish, striate and fissured, and thinly flaking, with small inconspicuous lenticels. Leaves membranous or thinly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 10-13 by 3.5-4 cm, base cuneate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface (cinnamon-)olivaceous, lower surface pale greyish cinnamon; papillose; dots absent; midrib raised above, lateral nerves 14-16 per side, at 70-80° to the midrib, flat or sunken above, bright brown and contrasting in colour below, lines of interarching distinct, venation fine, faint; petiole 10-14 by 1(—1.5) mm; leaf bud 6-7 by 1 mm, hairs inconspicuous, brown-grey, appressed, less than 0.1 mm. Male inflorescences, male and female flowers not seen. Female inflorescences (from the infructescences) axillary to a leaf scar just below the leaves, of the Knema-type, a minute sessile knob, bearing 1 (or 2) flowers. Fruits solitary, ovoid or slightly ellipsoid-fusiform, 3 by 1.7 cm, base and apex narrowly rounded or ± tapered, indumentum thin, felty, inconspicuous, hairs interwoven, scalelike, 0.1 (-0.2) mm, partly glabrescent; pericarp yellowish brown, 2(1) mm thick; seeds not seen; fruiting pedicel 1-2 by 2 mm, glabrescent, cracked and flaking.
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