Shrub or treelet, 2-3 m tall. Twigs 0.5-1 (-1.5) mm diameter, bluntly angular, early glabrescent, hairs scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; older twigs neither cracking nor flaking; lenticels inconspicuous or absent. Leaves membranous or thinly chartaceous, (elliptic-) oblong, 5-12 by 1.5-4 cm, base attenuate, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface olivaceous or brown, lower surface brownish grey (discolorous), seemingly glabrous, but glabrescent, hairs sparse, less than 0.1 mm; not papillose, dots absent; midrib raised above, lateral nerves 10-15 per side, at 45-80° to the midrib, flat or sunken above, bright brown and contrasting in colour below, lines of interarching and venation distinct; petiole 6-10 by (0.5—)1(—1.5) mm; leaf bud 5-8 by 0.5(-l) mm, hairs less than 0.1 mm. Inflorescences between the leaves, ± of the Knema-type; in male: peduncle slender, 1-2 mm long with small, slender, simple or forked scar-covered, glabrescent brachyblasts 3-4 mm long, ending with 1-3 flowers, buds about equal in size; female: a sessile or to 1 mm pedunculate minute wart-like brachyblast, 1-3-flowered; flowers with ± sparse hairs less than 0.1 mm, looking as if nearly glabrous. Male flowers: pedicel 6(-7) by 0.3-0.4 mm, brac-teole 1 mm long, persistent, 1-2 mm below the apex; buds tubiform, 6.5 by 1(—1.5) mm, apex subacute, the basal half somewhat narrowed, cleft c. 1/6, lobes 1 mm long, 0.2 mm thick, perianth inside at base faintly warty-ridged. Androecium slender, 6 mm; androphore 3.5 by 0.3 mm, with minute hairs in the lower half; synandrium 2(-2.2) by 0.5 mm, thecae c. 10, sterile apex subacute, 0.5-0.6 mm. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 1-3 per infructescence, ± fusiform, (3-)3.5 by 1.5 cm, apex acute, basal part tapered into a 5-8 mm long pseudostalk, hairs minute, dull-rusty, mealy, 0.1 mm or less; pericarp 1-1.5 mm thick; seeds ellipsoid, 1.4 cm; fruiting pedicel 3-4 by 2 mm, faintly fissured and lenticellate, bracteole scar about median.
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