Small tree, to 12 m; young branches pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 13-20(-30) by 3.4-7(-9) cm, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex narrowed to a short obtuse, or long acute apiculum, margin entire or dentate especially in the upper half (leaves of juvenile plants or of suckers more prominently dentate), pubescence may persist on mature leaves or may be lost except along the veins; petiole to 10 mm, pubescent. Inflorescences axillary or supra-axillary; male of sessile or shortly pedunculate fascicles with 10-20 flowers, often appearing as sessile umbels, but sometimes seen to consist of dense fascicles of pleiochasia, the principal branches 10-30 mm, tenuous, hairy; female solitary or in pairs, axillary or supra-axillary, pedicel 20-30 mm with subulate bracts at the base and sometimes about the middle, pubescent. Male receptacle globose, outside pubescent, c. 4-5 mm ø; tepals 4, minute; stamens 4, c. 1.5 mm long, filament short, hairy, the anthers 1.5 mm broad. Female receptacle bowl-shaped, c. 12 mm ø at anthesis; tepals 4, carpels nu-merous, ovary hairy, style awl-shaped glabrous. Drupes not seen. The mature torus with many protuberant pubescent carpophores c. 4-1 mm long.
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