Tree 12 m. Twigs 2-3 mm diameter, brown-black, glabrescent, hairs 0.1 (-0.2) mm; older twigs coarsely striate and somewhat cracking, not flaking; lenticels absent. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 9-11 by 2-3 cm, base short-attenuate or narrowly rounded, apex blunt or narrowly rounded; upper surface dark olivaceous-green, lower surface orange-brown, early glabrescent, hairs scattered, light brown, scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; densely papillose (lens!); dots and dashes present; midrib slightly raised above, lateral nerves 20-22 per side, at 70-80° to the midrib, sunken above, lines of interarching and venation faint; petiole 10-15 by 1.5-2 mm; leaf bud 10 by 1.5 mm, hairs dense, golden rusty-red, appressed, 0.1 (-0.3) mm. Inflorescences between the leaves and just below, of the Knema-type, simple or bifid scar-covered brachyblasts to 5 mm long, sessile or to 2 mm pedunculate; bracts small, caducous; in male: flowers in clusters of (5-) 10-15, buds of variable sizes; female inflorescences and flowers not seen. Male flowers: with dense rusty or dark brown hairs, 0.1-0.2 mm, pedicel 3-4 by 1(-1.5) mm, bracteole broadly rounded, 1 mm, persistent; buds ± firm, (ellipsoid-)oblong, 5 by 2.5 mm, apex and base rounded, cleft c. 1/3, lobes 1.5(-2) mm long, 0.3 mm thick;. Androecium slender, 3.5 mm; androphore 1.5 by 0.5 mm, glabrous except for a few hairs less than 0.1 mm at base; synandrium 2 by 0.8 mm, thecae (12—)14—16, sterile apex ± blunt, 0.2 mm. Fruits not seen.
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