Tree 6-7 m. Twigs 1.5-2(-2.5) mm diameter, ± angular and with two sharp ridges, glabrescent, hairs pale brown, scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; older twigs neither cracking nor flaking; lenticels not apparent. Leaves subchartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 10-16 by 3-5.5 cm, base attenuate to nearly rounded, apex acute-acuminate with conspicuous acumen up to 2.5 cm; upper surface olivaceous, glabrescent with some minute scale-like hairs remaining on the midrib towards the base, lower surface pale, grey-olivaceous or yellowish, late glabrescent or with subpersistent dense pale (grey-)brown scale-like hairs 0.1 mm or less; not papillose; dots absent; the midrib flat or somewhat raised above, lateral nerves 10-15 per side, at 45-60° to the midrib, curving, sunken above, below bright brown, contrasting in colour, lines of interarching very distinct; venation ± scalariform; petiole 10-15 by 1.5-2.5 mm; leaf bud 10-15 by 1.5-2 mm, hairs appres-sed, 0.1 mm. Inflorescences (known only from female inflorescences and infructescence): sessile or peduncle to 1.5 mm, among the leaves, of the Knema-type, pubescent or late glabrescent, brachyblast 1 mm, with 1-3 flowers; bracts caducous. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers:pubescent, hairs 0.1 mm or less, pedicel 6-9 by 1-1.5 mm, bracteole caducous, its scar 2-4 mm below the apex; buds ovoid-oblong, slightly narrowed in the upper half, 6-7 by 3.5 mm, apex narrowly rounded or subacute, base rounded, cleft 1/4-1/6, lobes 1(—1.5) mm long, 0.3 mm thick; ovary ovoid-oblong, hairs golden brown, appressed, 0.1-0.2 mm, including stigma 3-3.5 by 2 mm. Fruits single or in pairs, broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5-3 by 2-2.3 cm, apex rounded with apiculum 1.5 mm, base broadly rounded and contracted into 3 mm long pseudostalk, hairs dull brown, scurfy, 0.1 mm or less; pericarp 2-2.5 mm thick; seeds (immature) ellipsoid, 1.5 by 0.8 cm; fruiting pedicel ± stout, straight, striate, 9-10 by 3.5-4 mm, bracteole scar faint, ± median.
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