Trees to 16 m tall, unbuttressed, the young branches appressed strigose, glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 8-15 mm long, densely brown tomentose, membraneous, early caducous. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, 8-17 by 4-9 cm, glabrous and shiny with metallic sheen above when dry, with dense stomatal crypts filled with hairs, apex rounded to shortly blunt acuminate, the tip 0-3 mm long, rounded or subcuneate at base; midrib plane above, prominent beneath; primary veins 10-15 pairs, prominulous to plane above, prominent beneath, erect, curved only at margin; petioles 14-20 mm long, glabrescent, with inconspicuous glands near to lamina base, puberulous, glabrescent. Inflorescence of axillary little-branched panicles, 4-10 cm long, the rachis and branches densely brown tomentellous; bracts and bracteoles ovate, early caducous. Receptacle cam-panulate, slightly gibbous, 2-3 mm long, ferrugin-eous pubescent on exterior; pedicels 0.5 mm long; calyx lobes lanceolate, acute, 1 mm long, tomentellous. Petals lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens c. 8 with short tooth-like staminodes opposite. Ovary densely pilose. Style glabrous, equalling stamens; stigma truncate. Fruit not seen.
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