Tree c. 30 m tall. Twigs 2-3(-5) mm diameter, glabrescent, hairs 0.1 mm or less; older twigs brown, coarsely striate, with small paler lenticels. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 12-21 by 3-6 cm, base short-attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface brown, lower surface dull cinnamon or light brown, hairs persistent, dense, pale brown (greyish when older), scale-like, 0.1 mm or less; not papillose; dots absent; midrib flat above, lateral nerves 20-28 per side, at 50-70° to the midrib, slightly sunken above, faint below, lines of interarching and venation indistinct; petiole 20-25 by 2-2.5 mm; leaf bud 12-15 by 2-2.5 mm, hairs appressed, 0.1 mm. Inflorescences (from infructescences): between the leaves and below, of the Knema-typt: sessile knob-like woody scar-covered 1-3 topped brachyblasts 2-3(-5) mm long, minutely brown pubescent. Male and female flowers not known. Fruits 1 or 2 (or 3) per infructescence; (broadly) ovoid-ellipsoid, 2-2.3 by 1.5-1.7 cm, beaked for 1 mm by style-remnant, hairs fine, mealy, rust-coloured, 0.1 mm; pericarp l(-2) mm thick, seeds (not fully mature) ellipsoid, 1.5 cm; fruiting pedicel slender, (13-) 15-18 by 1.5-2 mm, bracteole scar 1(—1.5) mm below the apex, perianth scar clearly visible.
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