Small tree 8-12 m, rarely a shrub 3 m, innovations dark rusty-brown-appressed-hirsute, lenticels whitish, elongate-elliptic, mostly glabrous, clearly visible; branchlets terete, soon glabrous and covered with a thin whitish cork. Leaves oblong, gradually acute-acuminate (1-2 cm), acute at the base, subcoriaceous, upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, shining, lower surface dull, pale, often greyish or yellowish-pruinose when dry, midrib and nerves ± densely to laxly subappressed-hirsute, inter-venium itself glabrous, 12-22 by (3.5-)4-7 cm; midrib slightly raised above, very prominent beneath, nerves suberect, 4-5(-6) on each side, somewhat prominent above, very distinct so beneath, reticulations rather dense and prominent on both sides; petiole first ferrugineous-hirsute, soon glabrescent, 1½-3(-4) cm. ♂ Racemes slender 10-25(-30) cm, the female ones shorter and stouter, all covered with a dark ferrugineous-hirsute tomentum. Pedicels c. 2 mm. ♂ Flowers: calyx light-green or cream, the 3 lobes ovate-elliptic, c. 2.5 mm, appressed ferrugineous hirsute outside. Petals 5, rather membranous, oblong-subacuminate, 2.5 by 1¼ mm; scale ovate, c. 1.2 mm, yellowish-villous. Stamens 5, column glabrous. ♀ Flowers not yet known. Nearly ripe fruit globose, first with a rusty tomentum, which soon peels off, leaving the fruit minutely rugose, glabrous, with white dots; peduncle 2 mm.
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