Description
Trees: branches basitonic to mesotonic, in axils of cataphylls or basal foliage leaves; twigs angular and remaining so for at least two flushes, 1–3 mm diam.; epidermis brownish to black; terminal bud slender, ca. 5 X 4 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument sericeous to glabrous, caducous by next flush, the hairs sparse, up to 0.5 mm long, straight, appressed, ascending, silver. Leaves: petioles slender, 0.2–1.3 cm X (0.8–)1.5–1.8 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, narrowly ovate to obovate, (2–)4–10 X 1–4 cm; base cuneate to acute, minutely decurrent, 50–70°; apex obtuse, 80–110°, mucronate; margin minutely recurved; primary vein above and below flat to slightly raised; secondary veins (4–)6–7(–9) pairs, equidistant, brochidodromous, above and below flat, diverging at 60–80°, straight, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins inconspicuous, random-reticulate; higher order veins visible only in transmitted light; surface above and below brown, the primary veins above slightly darker, inconspicuously black-dotted, below primary vein lighter at base of lamina, darker apically; indument above absent, below minutely puberulous, silver. Staminate inflorescences: along whole length of flush, erect, peduncles 2–8 cm long, the hypopodia 1–5 cm X ca. 0.8 mm, branch orders 4, the second-order branches 5–7(–8), dispersed, lowest branch up to 1.5 cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 2.4 X 0.8 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle globose, ca. 2 X 2 mm, constricted at the place of tepal inception; tepals chartaceous, ovate (margin slightly recurved), ca. 1.6 X 1.5 mm (inner whorl slightly larger), at anthesis spreading, reddish, adaxially papillose; stamens of whorls I and II capitate, filament long, the anthers reniform, ca. 1.4 X 1.4 mm (whorl II slightly larger), glabrous, the locelli 4, apical, in a shallow arch, introrse, the glands absent; whorl III filamentous, capitate, ca. 1.4 X 0.6 mm, with a few hairs at base, the anthers trapezoid, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands globular, ca. 0.8 mm diam.; whorl IV absent (staminodial, staminodes columnar); all stamens yellowish-brown; pistillode teardrop-shaped, ca. 1.4 X 0.4 mm, glabrous. Pistillate flowers: pistil ca. 1.5 X 0.7 mm; ovary ovoid, ca. 1 mm long, glabrous. Fruits unknown.
