Treelet 4-5 m tall. Twigs (1-) 1.5-2 mm diameter, glabrescent, hairs scale-like, 0. mm or less; older twigs not cracking nor flaking; lenticels not apparent. Leaves membra nous, (elliptic-)oblong, 5-12 by 2-3.5(-4.5) cm, base broadly rounded or attenuate, ape: to 1.5 cm acute-acuminate; upper surface brown (greyish), lower surface pale, glabrou; or with a few scattered scale-like hairs less than 0.1 mm; not papillose; dots absent midrib raised above; lateral nerves 6—12(—14) per side, at 50-70° to the midrib, flat o; ± sunken above, indistinct, on lower surface brown, ± contrasting, lines of interarchin^ and venation indistinct; petiole 7-12 by 0.5-1 (-2) mm; leaf bud 7-12 by 1 mm, hairs 0.1 mm or less. Inflorescences pedunculate, between the leaves, axillary or to 3 mm supra-axillary, glabrescent, indumentum minute, grey-brown; bracts subtriangular, less thar 1 mm long, caducous; in male: peduncle (1—)2—5 by 0.5-1 mm, ending in a to 1.5 err long scar-covered brachyblast with a subumbel of 2-5 flowers, buds of various sizes; female inflorescences with 1 or 2 flowers, without or with peduncle to 5 mm long; flowers thin with hairs less than 0.1 mm. Male flowers: pedicel slender, 3.5-6 by 0.4-0.5 mm, bracteole minute, caducous, scar apical or 1-2 mm below; perianth inside in the lower half with longitudinal irregular furrows and rows of minute wart-like excrescences, buds ellipsoid-oblong, 4.5-6.5 by 1.2-2 mm, apex ± blunt or subacute, base narrowly rounded, cleft c. 1/5, lobes membranous, 0.7-1-1.5 mm long. Androecium slender, 3.5-6.5 mm; androphore grooved or not, 2.5-4 mm, hairs less than 0.1 mm; synandrium 1.8-2 by 0.5-0.7 mm, thecae 8-12, sterile apex acute, 0.1-0.7 mm. Female flowers: pedicel 2.5 mm, bracteole scar 1 mm below apex; buds ovoid-oblong, narrowed to apex, 7 by 2.5 mm, lobes 1 mm long; ovary including stigma 5 mm. Fruits solitary, ellipsoid-oblong, 3.7-4.5 by 1.4-1.5 cm, apical part contracted into a ± curved beak 4-7 mm, base narrowed into a 4-5 mm long pseudostalk, hairs dense, scurfy scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; pericarp 1 mm thick; seeds oblong, 2.8 cm; stalk (peduncle and fruiting pedicel) slender, nearly 1 cm long, fruiting pedicel 5 mm, bracteole scar 1.5 mm below the fruit.
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