Tree 15(-20) m. Twigs sometimes ± angular, 2.5-5 mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs 0.1 (-0.2) mm or less; older twigs blackish, longitudinally cracking and flaking; lenticels absent. Leaves (thinly) chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 15-32 by 5-11 cm, base cuneate or (narrowly) rounded, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface brown, lower surface grey(-brown), glabrous; papillose; dots absent; midrib nearly flat above, lateral nerves 14-20 per side, at 50-70° to the midrib, flat or sunken, lines of interarching distinct or not, venation indistinct; petioles 18-38 by 2.5-4.5 mm, leaf bud 10(—15) by 4(-5) mm, ± longitudinally cracked on drying, hairs 0.1-0.2 mm. Inflorescences between the lower leaves or Qust) below, of the Knema-type: sessile, simple or 2-or 3-branched scar-covered brachyblasts; bracts not seen; in female (from infructescences): branches 5-8 mm long, glabrescent, hairs yellow-rufous, 0.2-0.3 mm. Male and female flowers not seen. Fruits l(-3?) per infructescence, ± ellipsoid-fusiform, 3.5-4 by (2-) 2.5-3 cm, apex narrowly rounded or somewhat acute, base rounded or slightly narrowed, glabrescent, hairs mealy or powdery, rust-coloured, 0.3(-0.5) mm; pericarp 5 mm thick, light (yellowish or orange-)brown; seeds ellipsoid, 2 by 1.2-1.3 cm, the aril deeply impressed into the seed; fruiting pedicel ± slender, 5-8 by 2-3 mm, yellow-brown pubescent, glabrescent, bracteole apparently small, scar apical, or up to 1.5 mm below the apex.
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