Tree, 9-18 m, with spreading branches. Branchlets rather slender, tips lepidote. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rarely ovate, apex shortly attenuate or obtuse, sometimes emarginate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous, rigid, brown in dry specimens, glossy above sometimes, dull beneath, early glabrous above, subdensely set with a lower layer of small substellate, almost contiguous scales, and a so to say upper layer of scattered, major stellate scales, these early disappearing, whilst the smaller scales go tardily, the undersurface too finally practically glabrous, 5-9 by (2.5-)3-6 cm, midrib and nerves slightly to more deeply impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 6-8(-9) pairs, rather straight or more curved from the midrib, not properly looping, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense, slightly or hardly impressed above, well visibly raised beneath; petiole ± distinctly transversely rugulose, deeply grooved above, 5-10 by 2(-3) mm. ♂ Inflorescences from the upper axils, paniculate, with spike-like lax-flowered 1-3 cm long branches, densely scaly on axes, more laxly so on bracts and calyx lobes; rachis angular, c. 1 mm ø. Pedicels almost none. Calyx lobes ovate-acuminate, coriaceous, ciliate, 1.5 mm. Petals deep red, glabrous, 2.5 mm. Anther cells elliptic, 1.5 mm. ♀ Inflorescences raceme-like, few-flowered, (1-)2-3.5 cm. Pedicels thick, 2-5 mm. Ovary thick-cylindric, densely minutely stellate-lepidote.
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