Tree to 30 m tall with bole 22 m by 60 cm diameter. Twigs strigose or strigose-hirsute to subglabrous, glabrescent. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, sometimes somewhat bullate, broad-elliptic to elliptic or obovate, (2-)4-12(-18) by (1.5-)2-7(-9) cm, 6-11-nerved, rounded or obtuse and then often somewhat tapered at apex, obtuse to acute at base, decurrent along petiole, with coarsely undulate-serrate to entire margin, glabrous to sparsely strigose-hirsute, glabrescent, sometimes with tuft domatia in axils of secondary veins on abaxial surface. Petiole (5-)10-20 mm, sparsely strigose-hirsute. Stipules oblong or ovate-oblong, 3-6(-10) by 1-4(-7) mm, strigose beneath, glabrous above, rounded-obtuse at apex. Inflorescences of up to c. 75 flowers, subunits inserted in series in opposite axils of distal and frequently subdistal leaves and also rarely terminal, each subunit up to 8 (rarely 12) by 6(-8) cm, orders of branching 2-4, axes bearing flowers either dispersed along their distal part and/or in small, lax, subspherical clusters, each 4-6 mm diameter in flowering stage when dry and composed of c. 5 or more flowers; axes strigose or strigose-hirsute. Flowers sessile or with pedicel up to 1 mm long. Hypanthium 0.8-1.4 mm, shortly strigose-hirsute. Calyx lobes elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 1.7-2.5 by 0.8-1.4 mm, 0.4-1 mm wide at base, rounded at apex, strigose-hirsute to villose. Stamens with filaments (1.8-)2.5-3.4 mm and anthers 0.2-0.3 by 0.3-0.4 by 0.2 mm. Disc lobes 0.4-0.5 mm long. Ovary 1.2-2 mm long, hirsute, styles c. 2.5 mm long. Fruit with ‘ovary’ c. 2 mm diameter, styles up to 4 mm long. Seed c. 0.5 mm long.
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