Trees. Young branchlets covered with pubescence and becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate or clustered toward apex of branchlet, subverticillate; petiole ca. 1 cm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate, or long obovate, 8-15 × 3-5 cm, gray appressed pubescent and becoming glabrous abaxially, shiny and glabrous adaxially when young, except base of midrib pubescent, triplinerved, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, lowermost pair arising ca. 5 mm from base, base cuneate or obtuse, apex acuminate. Umbels 2-or 3-fascicled, axillary or lateral, 4-or 5-flowered. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, densely pubescent. Perianth segments 4, lanceolate. Female flowers: staminodes 6, glabrous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate glands at base; ovary ovoid; style pubescent. Fruit obovate-ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 1 cm. Fl. Feb-Jul, fr. Nov-Dec.
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