Treelet up to 7 m. Stipules 1-2½ by 1-2 mm, shortly ciliate. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, 5-11 by 1½-4 cm, obtuse to obtusely acuminate at apex, tapering at base, margins somewhat involute, strongest nerves c. 1 mm apart, papyraceous to chartaceous; petiole ½-2 cm. Inflorescences 7-15 cm; peduncle 1½-3½ mm Ø; pedicels 1-2 mnm bracts very small, semi-annular to triangular. Flowers ☿ erect. Sepals obovate, 2-2¾ by 1½-2 mm. obovate, c. 3½ by 2½ mm, white or pink. Outer staminodes 10-∞, filiform, ¾-1 mm long; inner staminodes c. 25, linear, 1½-2 mm c. ½ mm connate at base. Filaments c. 1¾ mm; anthers ¾-1 by 0.4-0.5 mm. Ovary subglobular, ± 3-lobed, 0.4-0.5 mm Ø, glabrous; stigma 3-lobed, subsessile. Fruit fusiform, c. 10 by 3 mm acuminate. Seeds c. 0.6 by 0.4 mm, with c. 2 mm long, basally connate wings.
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