Tree 17 m by 120 cm; crown wide-spreading. Bark thick, black, scaly, rough. Young branchlets rufous-sericeous. Leaves subcoriaceous, spirally arranged and more or less crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, at first densely rufous-sericeous becoming sparsely sericeous-pilose on both surfaces, conspicuously and rather densely minutely verruculose above, rather inconspicuously so beneath, pellucid-punctate, obovate, 7½-4½ by 0.7-2.6 cm, usually rounded at the apex and cuneate at the base; nerves 5-7 pairs, with domatia in their axils; petiole rufous-sericeous, 3-7 mm. Flowers white, sessile, in 3-6-flowered pseudo-capi-tulae with peduncle up to 4 cm long provided with 2-3 bracts, 2-3 mm long, at the apex. Lower receptacle (ovary) rufous-sericeous, 1½-2 mm long; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes rufous-sericeous outside, glabrous inside, triangular or ovate-triangular, acute, 2 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 2 mm; anthers 0.3 mm long. Style glabrous, 2 mm. Fruit unknown.
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