Twigs terete, 5-8 mm diameter; older twigs at first blackish brown, soon pale and conspicuously rough, flaky, and fissured by numerous elongate lenticels. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or oblong(-lanceolate), 17-30 by 5-9.5 cm; lower surface with pale yellowish brown dense short-felty hairs 0.1 mm; petiole short, 5 (-10) by 3-5 mm, dark brown. Inflorescences (female) of the Knema-tyipe: sessile, 2-(or 3-)flowered. Female flowers ± sessile; buds ovoid-oblong, narrowed towards the apex, hairs 1 mm long. Fruits solitary, ellipsoid, 2.5-3.5(-4) by 1.5-2.5 cm, apex subacute, hairs powdery, (light) brown, 0.5 mm; pericarp 3 mm thick; fruiting pedicel thick, 1-2 mm long, c. 5 mm thick, frequently with the perianth persistent under the fruit, bracteole scar not seen.
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