Slender treelet, 1.5 m. Twigs bluntly 2-or 3-angular, (1-) 1.5-2 mm diameter, somewhat reddish brown, early glabrescent, hairs appressed, greyish, 0.1 mm or less, smooth; older twigs not seen. Leaves membranous (or chartaceous), lanceolate, parallel-sided, 12-22 by 1.5-3 cm, base attenuate, apex long acute(-acuminate); upper surface glabrous, dark brown, lower surface grey(-brown), early glabrescent, hairs minute, scattered, grey, 0.1 mm or less; not clearly papillose but stomata or hair bases(?) look like minute pustules with a dark-coloured centre (lens!); dots absent; midrib slender, raised above, lateral nerves 16-20 per side, at 45-60° to the midrib, slender, flat or slightly sunken above, light brown, contrasting below, lines of interarching distinct, venation faint; petiole dark (reddish) brown, 8-10 by 1-2 mm; leaf bud 7 by (1-)1.5 mm, hairs dense, appressed, bright brown, 0.2(-0.3) mm. Male inflorescences, male and female flowers not known. Female inflorescences (from imperfect broken infructescence) among the leaves, peduncle 2 by 1.5 mm, smooth, partly glabrescent, hairs grey-brown, appressed, 0.2 mm, continuing in the fruiting pedicel (broken away in the only known specimen). Fruits (immature) solitary, oblong-fusiform, base narrowed (pseudostalk), apex acute, (4-)4.5 by 1.3 (-1.5) cm, hairs dense, rust-coloured, scurfy, 0.1-0.2 mm; pericarp 2 mm thick; seeds not seen; fruiting pedicel not seen, probably slender, c. 10 mm.
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