Tree 5-26 m. Twigs 3-4(-5) mm diameter, (early) glabrescent, hairs 0.5(-l) mm; older twigs brown or blackish, often longitudinally cracking; lenticels frequently small but distinct. Leaves (thinly) coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or oblong(-lanceolate), 20-50 by 7-15 cm, base short-cuneate or rounded, apex acute-acuminate; upper surface olivaceous or brown, lower surface whitish or greyish, glabrescent, hairs thin, scale-like, less than 0.1 mm; not papillose; dots absent; midrib slightly raised above, lateral nerves 16-20(-22) per side, at 60-80° to the midrib, flat above, brown and contrasting in colour below, lines of interarching and venation indistinct; petiole 15-25(-30) by 3-6 mm; leaf bud 15-20(-30) by 3-4(-5) mm, hairs 0.3-0.5(-0.6) mm. Inflorescences pedunculate, late glabrescent, between the lower leaves or just below, sometimes axillary to cataphylls on 1-3 cm long short-shoots (with apical sterile buds) on older wood; in male: peduncle 10-15 by 3-3.5 mm, striate, ending in a subumbel (composed of two adjacent sessile partial subumbels) of 4-6 flowers, buds nearly equal in size; bracts caducous; in female: peduncle 5-6 mm long, 1-3-flowered; flowers thinly coriaceous, with hairs 0.5 mm long. Male flowers: pedicel 8-10 by 1.5(-2) mm, bracteole caducous; buds (immature) ovoid-ellipsoid, 7(-8) by 5 mm, rounded at both ends, cleft nearly 1/2, lobes 3(-4) mm long, 0.5 mm thick. Androecium 4.5 mm; androphore 0.5(-l) by 1 mm, glabrous, with a ring of densely set pale hairs 0.2 mm at base (see also note 1); synandrium 4 by 2 mm, thecae c. 30, sterile apex broadly convex, 0.5 mm. Female flowers:see note 1. Fruits: peduncle short, fruits solitary or 2 or 3 together, ellipsoid, 5-7 by (3-)4-4.5 cm, apex rounded or subacute, hairs rusty, mealy, (0.3-)0.6-l mm; pericarp 5-10 mm thick; seeds ellipsoid, 3-3.5 cm; fruiting pedicel 5 mm long, ± pubescent.
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