Treelet c. 3 m tall. Twigs 1-1.5 mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs very minute; older twigs coarsely striate or slightly flaking, with few inconspicuous lenticels. Leaves membranous or chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 9.5—15(—17) by 3.5-6 cm, base attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface olivaceous or brown, lower surface brown-grey, glabrous, with some scattered whitish scale-like hairs less than 0.1 mm; inconspicuously densely fine-papillose; dots absent; midrib slightly raised above, lateral nerves 10-15 per side, at 60-70° to the midrib, flat or sunken above, on lower surface brownish and ± contrasting, lines of interarching ± distinct, venation fine, faint or distinct below; petiole 8-15 by 0.8-1.5 mm; leaf bud 10 by 1-1.5 mm, hairs 0.1 mm or less. Male inflorescences, male and female flowers not seen. Female inflorescences (from infruc-tescences) sessile, of the Knema-type, small, consisting of a single axillary flower. Fruits solitary, ± narrowly fusiform, 7-8.5 cm, apex acute, with or without pseudostalk, hairs inconspicuous, pale rust-coloured, mealy, interwoven, scale-like, 0.1 mm or less, (partly) glabrescent; pericarp (l-)2 mm thick; seeds oblong, 3 cm; fruiting pedicel slender or thickish, 9-10 mm, fissured and transversely cracked, glabrous (hence flowers possibly glabrescent), bracteole scar obscure, 2.5 mm below the apex.
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