Description
Trees: branches basitonic, in axils of cataphylls or basal foliage leaves; twigs angular and remaining so for at least two flushes, ca. 5 mm diam.; epidermis black, barely visible due to indument cover; terminal bud slender, ca. 1 X 1 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument pubescent to tomentose, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense, up to 1 mm long, crisped, erect, yellowish. Leaves: petioles robust, 1.5–2.7 cm X 2–3.5 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, broadly elliptic (ovate), 8–18 X 3–8 cm; base obtuse, minutely decurrent, 60–110°; apex acute, 60–100°, ultimately acuminate for up to 0.5(–1) cm; margin flatmargin plane; primary vein above flat, below raised; secondary veins 5–7 pairs, equidistant, eucamptodromous, above flat, below slightly raised, diverging at 50–55°, evenly arching (forked), chordal angle 20–30°, angle, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins flat above, raised below, random-reticulate to scalariform; higher order veins above and below slightly raised; surface above dull to shiny, yellowish-green to yellowish-brown, below light yellowish-brown to creamy white; indument above glabrousabsent, primary , the primary vein tomentose, below tomentose, the hairs dense, up to 0.5 mm long, straight, appressed, ascending, yellowish, as well as up to 1.5 mm long, curved to crisped, erect and yellowish, persisting for at least two flushes. Staminate inflorescences: along whole length of flush, erect, peduncles 5–12 cm long, hypopodiathe hypopodia 2–5 cm X 1–2.4 mm, branch orders 6, second-order , the second-order branches 6–10, clustered apically, lowest branch up to 1.2(–3.5) cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 2.4 X 1 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle obconical, ca. 1.2 X 2 mm; tepals coriaceous, ovate, ca. 2.5 X 2.5 mm (inner whorl slightly smaller), at anthesis spreading to recurved, reddish, adaxially tomentose; stamens of whorls I and II minutely spathulate, anther , the anthersbroadly elliptical retuse, ca. 1 X 1.2 mm, with a few hairs at base, locelli, the locelli 4, apical, in a shallow arch, introrse, glands, the glands absent; whorl III columnar, ca. 1.2 X 0.8 mm, with a few hairs at base, locelli, the locelli 4, upperthe upper pair latrorse, lowerthe lower pair extrorse, glands, the glands globular, ca. 0.5 mm diam.; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish; pistillode filiform, ca. 0.6 X 0.2 mm, glabrous. Pistillate flowers: pistil ca. 2.2 X 1.5 mm; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.2 mm long, glabrous. Fruits unknown.
