Description
Trees: branches basitonic, in axils of cataphylls or basal foliage leaves, often pseudo-verticillate; twigs angular, soon becoming terete, 3–6 mm diam.; epidermis brownish to black, barely visible due to indument cover; terminal bud plump, 3–7 X 2–3 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument pubescent, persisting for at least two flushes, the hairs dense, up to 0.3(–0.9) mm long, straight to curved, erect, yellowish. Leaves: petioles robust, 0.5–1.3 cm X 1–3 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, narrowly (broadly) elliptic, (5–)10–14(–18) X (2–)3–5(–7) cm; base acute to obtuse, ca. 100°; apex acute, 70–120°, ultimately acuminate for up to 0.5 cm; margin flatmargin plane; primary vein above slightly raised, below prominent; secondary veins (6–)7(–9) pairs, equidistant, eucamptodromous, above slightly raised, below prominent, diverging at ca. 70°, straight to evenly arching (forked), chordal angle 40–50°, angle, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins above and below raised, random-reticulate; higher order veins above and below slightly raised; surface above shiny yellowish-brown in young leaves, opaque brown in older leaves, the veins slightly lighter, below dull yellowish-brown in young leaves, faintly reddish-brown in older leaves, the veins lighter; indument above puberulous to glabrousabsent, primary , the primary and secondary veins tomentose, caducous by next flush to persisting for at least two flushes, below puberulous to velutinous, the hairs dense to sparse, up to 1 mm long, straight to curved, erect, yellowish, denser on the veins, persisting for at least two flushes. Staminate inflorescences: along whole length of flush, pendulous, peduncles 3–11 cm long, hypopodiathe hypopodia 2–6 cm X 1–1.5 mm, branch orders 4, the second-order branches 4–7, dispersed, lowest branch up to 1.5(–4) cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 5.6 X 1.2 mm, the diameter gradually increasing apically; receptacle obconical, ca. 3.2 X 3.5 mm; tepals coriaceous, ovate, ca. 5 X 4 mm, at anthesis erect to spreading, black, adaxially glabrous; stamens of whorls I and II sessile, chubby, anther , the antherssessile, chubby, trapezoid, ca. 1.4 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. 1.6 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 fused, forming a continuous ring protruding between the anthers of the outer whorls; whorl IV absent; all stamens blackish; pistillode filiform, ca. 1.7 X 1 mm, glabrous. Pistillate flowers: pistil ca. 3 X 1.5 mm; ovary ovoid to globose, ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Fruits: pedicels up to 45 X 5 mm, gradually enlarging to form the cupule; cupule hemispherical, up to 7 X 19 mm, smooth, margin, the margin undulate, tepals persisting; berry elliptic, up to 35 X 21 mm.
