Trees up to 30 m high, buttresses absent. Lateral stems almost as dominant as median axis; twigs floccose, the hairs red-brown, later more sparsely hairy. Leaves with petiole 0.3-0.7 cm and blade subcoriaceous to coriaceous, (3-)3.5-6(-9.3) by (1.7-)2-4(-5.3) cm, elliptic, ovate or oblong-elliptic, with the base obtuse or broadly acute and the apex obtuse or rounded; indumentum often floccose near midrib, irregularly persistent, red-brown; minute glands rare; margin crenulate; secondary veins in 11-15 pairs, generally evenly spaced. Stipules narrowly triangular to ovate, 5-8 mm long. Inflorescence terminal; median axes up to 9.5 cm long by 2-4 mm diameter, usually with 3-4 pairs of major lateral branches, bearing red-brown, tomentose indumentum. Flowers bisexual, 5-8 mm diameter, 5-merous (except for gynoecium); almost sessile to pedicellate, pedicel 0.5-2 mm long; hypanthium tomentose, up to c. 0.5 mm high; calyx lobes 2-2.6 by 1-2 mm, outer surface almost glabrous; petals with the basal part c. 1 mm long, lobes up to 0.6-0.8 mm long; filaments 1.7-2.5 mm, anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long; disc lobes c. 0.6 mm diameter; ovary superior, 2-carpellate, ± spherical, 1-2 by 1-2.5 mm, tomentose; styles 0.8-1.1 mm long. Fruit ± spherical, somewhat irregular, up to c. 1.6 by 1.6 cm but perhaps not yet fully mature; epicarp smooth to warty.
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