Tree 8 m. Twigs 3-4 mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs conspicuous, brown, 0.5 mm long; older twigs and lenticels not seen. Leaves chartaceous, (ovate-)elliptic, 12-17 by 6-8.5 cm, base (shallowly) cordate, the blade ± narrowed towards the blunt apex; upper and lower surface of recently full grown leaf with dense brown hairs of mixed sizes, 0.1-0.6 mm, upper surface glabrescent, olivaceous, lower surface with persistent conspicuous indumentum, partly late glabrescent; not papillose; dots absent; midrib raised above, lateral nerves 9-13 per side, at 45-70° to the midrib, flat or ± sunken above, lines of interaching and venation indistinct; petiole late glabrescent, 12-15 by 3 mm; leaf bud 12 by 3 mm, hairs 0.5(-l) mm. Inflorescences between the leaves, densely pubescent, as in Knema but pedunculate; in male: peduncle 5-10 by 2-3 mm, ending in 2 (or 3) scar-covered brachyblasts to 5 mm long, flowers in loose clusters of 5-10, buds not much variable in size; female inflorescences not seen; flowers with hairs 0.5 mm. Male flowers: pedicel 2-2.5 by 1-1.5 mm, bracteole rounded, 1 mm, caducous; buds ellipsoid-oblong, 8 by 4 mm, cleft c. 1/3, lobes 2.5-3 mm long, 0.3 mm thick. Androecium 6.5-7 mm; androphore 3 by 1 mm, at base with dense rufous hairs 0.5 mm long; synandrium 3.5(-4) by (1-)1.5 mm, thecae 14-16, sterile apex consisting of minute excrescences 0.1 mm corresponding with the anthers. Female flowers not seen. Fruits (doubtful, see note 1) ovoid, 2 by 1.5 cm, apex rounded, base (broadly) rounded, hairs dense, 1 mm; pericarp 1(—1.5) mm thick; seeds ellipsoid, 1.5 cm; fruiting pedicel not known.
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