Small tree to 4 m; young branches with appressed strigose hairs. Leaves chartaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 3-6 by 1-3 cm, base attenuated, apex acute or shortly cuspidate, margin entire, glabrous, midrib well-defined below and with numerous fine lateral veins and reticulations; petiole 4-6 mm, glabrescent. ? Dioecious. Male inflorescences axillary, 10-30 mm long, 2-or often 1-flowered, with dense appressed hairs, slender; receptacle somewhat disk-shaped, 2 mm high, 5 mm ø; tepals 4, minute; stamens 4, the longer c. 1 mm longer, filaments densely strigose. Female inflorescences similar to male but apparently always 1-flowered; receptacle turbinate, slightly expanded at the circumference, c. 2-2.5 mm high, c. 3 mm ø, densely strigose within, tepals obsolete; carpels c. 6, 1.3 — 1.5 mm long, ovary densely strigose, style subulate, glabrous. Fruit with a stout pedicel c. 18 mm; receptacle leathery, only slightly enlarged. Drupes subsessile, ovoid, c. 13 by 9 mm, verruculose.
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