Tree 6-7 m. Twigs 1.5 mm diameter, ± angular, reddish brown, early glabrescent, hairs densely set, greyish, scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; older twigs blackish; lenticels not apparent. Leaves thinly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 7-16 by 2.5-6 cm, base short-attenuate, apex faintly acute-acuminate; upper surface olivaceous-brown, lower surface silvery grey, glabrescent, hairs scattered, pale, scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; partly minutely papillose; dots absent; midrib ± flat to raised above, lateral nerves 8-10 per side, at 70-80° to the midrib, sunken above, raised, red-brown and contrasting below, lines of interarching distinct, venation finely reticulate, not very distinct; petiole 7-13 by 1-1.5 mm; leaf bud 5 by 1 mm, hairs 0.1 mm or less. Male inflorescences, male and female flowers not seen. Female inflorescences (from infructescences): among the leaves, supra-axillary (see note 2), peduncle 2-6 by 1-1.5 mm, early glabrescent, with few lenticels, ending in a short scar-covered brachyblast 2-3 mm, with (presumably) 1 or 2 flowers. Fruits 1 or 2 per infructescence, (ovoid-or) ellipsoid-oblong, 2.7-2.8 by 1.2-1.3 cm, apex acute, base rounded, pseudostalk absent, hairs dense, mealy, bright brown, 0.1 mm; pericarp 1 mm thick; seeds ellipsoid-oblong, 2.3 cm; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm, with fine hairs 0.1 mm, late glabrescent, the scar of the bracteole almost at the apex.
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