Tree 6 m tall. Twigs faintly blunt-angular, 2-2.5 mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs minute, greyish; older twigs incidentally thinly flaking, with some small lenticels. Leaves (thinly) chartaceous, ± obovate-oblong, 16-19 by 5.5-6.5 cm, base short-attenuate or nearly rounded, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface blackish brown, lower surface brown-grey, glabrous (or glabrescent, hairs few, minute, scattered, whitish, appressed); not papillose; dots absent; midrib flat above, lateral nerves 12-16 per side, at 45-60° to the midrib, sunken above, bright reddish brown below, contrasting, lines of interarching and venation distinct; petiole 8-15 by (2-)3-3.5 mm; leaf bud 7-8 by 2 mm, hairs 0.2-0.3 mm. Inflorescences (from infructescences) between the apical leaves, presumably of the Knema-type: 1-(or 2-)flowered, peduncle 1.5-2 mm long (see note 2). Male and female flowers not seen. Fruits solitary, somewhat immature: elliptic(-oblong), 2.5 by 1.5 cm, apex 2 mm beaked, base contracted into ± broad 4-5 mm long pseudostalk, hairs thinly set, mealy, dull rust-coloured, 0.1 mm or less; pericarp 2 mm thick; seeds not seen; fruiting pedicel 2.7-3.5 cm by 1 mm, bracteole scar 10 mm below the apex.
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