Description
Trees: branches basitonic, in axils of cataphylls or basal foliage leaves; twigs angular and remaining so for at least two flushes, 3–6 mm diam.; epidermis black; terminal bud plump, ca. 1 X 1 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument puberulous, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense, up to 0.3 mm long, straight to crisped, erect, yellowish. Leaves: petioles robust, 1.5–3 cm X 2–3 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, broadly elliptic, 10–20 X 6–13 cm; base obtuse to rounded, 90–150°; apex obtuse to rounded, 120–140°, (mucronate); margin flatmargin plane; primary vein above flat, below prominent; secondary veins 4–7 pairs, equidistant, brochidodromous, above slightly raised, below prominent, diverging at 50–60°, abruptly arching near margin (forked), chordal angle 35–40°, angle, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins above slightly raised, below raised, random-reticulate to scalariform; higher order veins above and below slightly raised; surface above dark green to black, below brownish-green; indument above glabrousabsent, primary , the primary and secondary veins tomentose, below tomentose, the hairs sparse, up to 0.6 mm long, straight to crisped, erect, yellowish-brown, persisting for at least two flushes. Staminate inflorescences: basitonic to mesotonic, erect (curved upwards), peduncles 5–17 cm long, hypopodiathe hypopodia 2–8 cm X 1.5–2.5 mm, branch orders 5(–6), second-order , the second-order branches 2–8, dispersed or clustered apically, lowest branch up to 4 cm long, all axes blackish, sparsely puberulous; bracts caducous (not seen); bracteoles persistent or caducous, up to 3 mm long, adaxially glabrous. Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 5.6 X 0.8 mm, the diameter gradually increasing apically; receptacle obconical, ca. 2.5 X 3.2 mm; tepals coriaceous, ovate, ca. 2.5 X 2 mm, at anthesis spreading, black, adaxially patchy puberulous; stamens of whorls I and II spathulate, anther , the anthersreniform, ca. 1 X 1.8 mm, puberulous, locelli, the locelli 3 to 4, apical, in a shallow arch, introrse, glands, the glands absent; whorl III capitate, ca. 1 X 0.8 mm, puberulous, locelli, the locelli 4, upperthe upper pair latrorse, lowerthe lower pair extrorse, glands, the glands fused, forming a continuous ring; whorl IV absent; all stamens blackish; pistillode teardrop-shaped, immersed within the receptacle, lacking a stigma, ca. 2 X 1 mm, glabrous. Pistillate flowers: pistil ca. 3.2 X 2 mm; ovary globose, ca. 2.4 mm long, glabrous. Fruits unknown.
