Tree 6 m. Twigs 3-4 mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs 0.1 mm or less; older twigs coarsely striate with a few inconspicuous lenticels. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-oblong or elliptic(-oblong), 19-25 by 9-12 cm, base (broadly) rounded, apex bluntly acute or short acute-acuminate; the upper surface dark brown, lower surface somewhat paler, (greyish) brown, glabrous (or possibly early glabrescent, hairs minute, scale-like); ± papillose (but not conspicuously so); dark (red-)brown dots present, just visible to the naked eye; midrib moderately raised above, lateral nerves 12—14(—17) per side, at 45-60° to the midrib, slender, sunken above, nerves below bright brown and contrasting in colour, lines of interarching indistinct, venation coarsely reticulate, thin, impressed above (and rendering the blade faintly bullate), hardly visible below; petiole 20 by 4 mm; leaf bud 15 by 3 mm, hairs inconspicuous, appressed, dull brown, scale-like, 0.1 mm or less. Inflorescences among the leaves, sessile, of the Knema-type; in male: brachyblast scar-covered, 3-4 mm, glabrescent, peduncle less than 1 mm; bracts broadly ovate, 3 mm, acute, caducous; flowers (1—)2—5 in a cluster, buds almost equal in size, with sparse grey-brown hairs 0.1 mm or less. Male flowers: pedicel (5-)9-10 by 1.5(-2) mm, bracteole not seen, caducous, the scar subapical; buds (ellipsoid-)oblong, 10-12 by 5 mm, apex bluntish, cleft c. 1/5, lobes ± coriacious, 2-2.5 mm long, 0.5 mm thick, at anthesis ± curved outwards. Androecium (broad-)cylindrical, 8 by 1.5(-2) mm; androphore 3.5 by 1.5(—2) mm, dark brown appressed-pubescent in the lower half, hairs 0.3-0.4 mm; synandrium 4 by 1.5(-2) mm, tapering to the apex into the 0.5 mm long acute sterile apex, thecae c. 20. Female flowers and fruits not seen.
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