Description
Trees: branching unknown; twigs angular, soon becoming terete, ca. 3 mm diam.; epidermis black, barely visible due to indument cover; terminal bud plump?, ca. 1 X 1 mm; cataphylls persisting on current flush, up to 0.8 mm long; indument puberulous, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense, up to 0.3 mm long, straight, erect, reddish. Leaves: petioles robust, 0.7–1.2 cm X 2.5–3.5 mm, adaxially flattened; blades thinly chartaceous, flat, broadly elliptic, 17–27 X 9–11 cm; base obtuse to rounded, 120–140°; apex acute to obtuse, 80–130°, ultimately acuminate for up to 2 cm; margin plane; primary vein above flat to slightly raised, below raised to prominent; secondary veins 8–10 pairs, equidistant, brochidodromous, above impressed to flat, below raised, diverging at 45–65°, evenly arching, chordal angle 20–35°, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins above flat, below slightly raised, random-reticulate to scalariform; higher order veins above flat, below slightly raised; surface above grayish-brown, below brown; indument above absent, the primary and secondary veins puberulous, below puberulous, the hairs isolated, up to 0.4 mm long, straight, erect, reddish-brown, denser on the veins, caducous after one flush. Staminate inflorescences: basitonic to mesotonic, pendulous?, peduncles 16–30 cm long, the hypopodia 5–8 cm X 1.5–2 mm, branch orders 4, the second-order branches 14–19, 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. 4.8 X 1 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle obconical, ca. 2 X 3.1 mm; tepals coriaceous, obovate, ca. 3.5 X 2.5 mm, at anthesis spreading, reddish-brown, adaxially puberulous; stamens of whorls I and II, the anthers sessile, oblong, ca. 1.2 X 1.2 mm, with a few hairs at base, the locelli 4, apical, in a strong arch, the upper pair introrse, the lower pair latrorse, the glands absent; whorl III columnar, ca. 1.4 X 1 mm, with a few hairs at base, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands globular, ca. 0.8 mm diam.; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish; pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers and fruits unknown.
