Tree 4-15 m. Twigs 2.5-3(-5) mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs 0.1 mm; older twigs coarsely striate, with scattered not contrasting lenticels. Leaves chartaceous or subcoriaceous, broadly ellipsoid-oblong, 15-24 by 5-10 cm, base attenuate, apex short acute-acuminate; upper surface brown, lower surface greyish, glabrescent, hairs interwoven, soft, stellate, 0.1-0.2 mm, the larger hairs leaving point-like scars; distinctly papillose or not; dots absent; midrib almost flat above, lateral nerves 10-16 per side, at 45-60° to the midrib, flat or sunken, indistinct above, on lower surface purple-brown contrasting, lines of interarching and venation indistinct; petiole 10-15 by 3-4 mm; leaf bud 15 by 3 mm, hairs woolly, 0.2-0.5 mm. Female inflorescences between the leaves and below, of the Knema-type: sessile wart-like brachyblasts, 2-3 mm long, finely woolly pubescent, with 2-5 flowers, buds almost equal in size. Male flowers not known. Female flowers (Meijer 9363) with dense bright golden-rusty hairs 0.2 mm, pedicel 0.5 mm, bracteole ovate, 3 mm, persistent; buds ovoid, narrowed towards the blunt or subacute apex, 5.5 by 3.5(-4) mm, cleft into 3 or 4 lobes for c. 1/3 to nearly 1/2, lobes 0.3 mm thick; ovary ovoid, 3 by 2 mm, hairs golden brown 0.2(-0.3) mm. Fruits in sessile clusters of 2 per infructescence, subsessile, (sub)globose, 2-2.2 by 2 cm, apex sometimes with beak 1.5(-2) mm, hairs dense, 0.1-0.2 mm; pericarp woody-pergamentaceous, 1-2 mm thick; seeds ellipsoid, 16-18 mm, with thick aril; fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 mm.
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