Small tree; branchlets glabrous, soon covered with grey cork. Leaves oblong, shortly (1 cm) acute-acuminate, cuneate at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, brownish and shining above, pallid and dull beneath when dry, (8-)9-14 by 4.5-6 cm; midrib slightly impressed above, very prominent beneath, nerves ± 5 pairs, curved-ascending, ex-current at the margin or the upper ones very slightly anastomosing, little prominent on both surfaces, veins rather densely reticulate and raised specially beneath; petiole rugose, 1.3-1.8 cm. ♂ Flowers: racemes axillary, spike-like, 6-7 cm, grey-puberulous. Pedicels 1 mm. Calyx lobes 3, ovate, 1.2 mm. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, 2 mm; scales ovate, barbate, 1 mm. Column of filaments glabrous. ♀ Flowers and fruit not yet known.
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