Small tree c. 4 m. Twigs triangular, 1.5—2(—3) mm diameter, early glabrescent, hairs dense, less than 0.1 mm; older twigs neither cracking nor flaking; lenticels inconspicuous or absent. Leaves membranous, elliptic-oblong, 6-11 by 1.5-3 cm, base long-attenuate, apex acute(-acuminate); upper surface (blackish) brown, lower suface light brown or greyish, very early glabrescent, hairs few, scattered, whitish, less than 0.1 mm; papillose (lens!); dots absent; midrib slightly raised above, lateral nerves 10-13 per side, at c. 45° to the midrib, fine, ± sunken above, on lower surface brownish, lines of interarching indistinct, nerves and venation in old leaves contrasting in colour; petiole 7-10 by 1-1.5 mm; leaf bud 6-10 by 1.5(—2) mm, hairs less than 0.1 mm. Inflorescences (from in-fructescence) of the Knema-type: a sessile, simple, short tubercle-like brachyblast. Male and female flowers not seen. Fruits axillary to leaf scars below the leaves, solitary, ellipsoid-fusiform, 3-3.3 by 1.5-1.7 cm, apex narrowly 2(-3) mm beaked, base narrowed into a slender 5(-7) mm long pseudostalk, hairs dull, mealy, grey-brown, interwoven, less than 0.1 mm, appearing as if glabrous; pericarp 1(-2) mm thick; seeds broad-ellipsoid, blackish brown, 1.5-1.7 cm; fruiting pedicel slender, 15-17 by 1.5 mm, bracteole scar at (4-)5 mm below the apex, part above the scar smooth, below coarsely striate or cracked.
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