Trees, ca. 10 m high, 10 cm in diameter, the branchlets slender, minutely and sparsely lepidote, glabrate. Leaves with long slender petioles 1.5-2.3 cm long, the petioles canaliculate, sparsely and minutely lepidote beneath at first; leaf blades membranaceous, glabrous, conspicuously black-punctate, ob-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 7-15 cm long and 2.5-4.6 cm wide, sub-abruptly acuminate apically, attenuate basally, decurrent on the petiole, the margin entire or subentire, the midvein nearly plane at the base above, elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender, 15-17 pairs, ascending at a wide angle, finely reticulate beneath, the veins less evident above. Inflorescences terminal, exceeding the leaves, narrowly tripinnately paniculate, to 15 cm long, minutely and densely papillate-puberulent; pedicels slender, 3-5 mm long; flowers unknown; calyx subtending the fruit minutely papillate-puberulent, the sepals narrowly triangular, 1.3-1.6 mm long, acute, black-punctate. Fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diameter at maturity, the persistent bases of the styles and the fruit apex at the base of the style with scattered short reddish trichomes.
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