Tree 10-12 m. Twigs 1.5—2(—3) mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs ± rough, 0.2-0.3(-0.5) mm; older twigs ± longitudinally cracking, with scattered faint lenticels. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 by 3-5 cm, base attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface dark-olivaceous or brown, lower surface brown-grey with (sub)persistent dense felty pale brown scale-like hairs 0.1-0.2 mm and scattered emergent bright brown dendroid hairs 0.3-0.5 mm; indistinctly papillose; dots absent; midrib (flat or) raised above, lateral nerves 13-17 per side, at 45-60(-70)° to the midrib, (flat or) sunken above, lines of interarching and venation faint but visible in old leaves; petiole 13-20 by 1.5-2 mm; leaf bud 15 by 2-2.5 mm, hairs 0.2-0.3 mm long. Inflorescences (from infructescences) between the leaves, of the Knema-type; in female: a few-flowered, sessile, scar-covered wart-like brachyblast, 2-3 mm diameter, short-pubescent, glabrescent. Male inflorescences, male and female flowers not seen. Fruits solitary ellipsoid, 4.5 by 3.5 cm, base slightly attenuate, hairs conspicuous, ± thick and shaggy rust-coloured 2(-3) mm; pericarp 3 mm thick; seeds ellipsoid, 2.5 cm; fruiting pedice 10(—12) by 4(-5) mm, late glabrescent, ± cracking, bracteole scar 2 mm below the apex
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