Description
Shrubs: branches basitonic?, in axils of cataphylls; twigs terete, ca. 2 mm diam.; epidermis brownish; terminal bud slender, ca. 3 X 1 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument puberulous to absent, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense, up to 0.2 mm long, straight, spreading, ascending, golden. Leaves: petioles slender, 0.6–1 cm X ca 0.6 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, broadly ovate to elliptic, 3–8 X 1–5 cm; base obtuse to rounded, minutely decurrent, 90–110°; apex acute to obtuse, 50–80°, ultimately acuminate for up to 2 cm; margin plane; primary vein above and below slightly raised; secondary veins (1–)2–3(–4) pairs (strongly triplinerved), closer together towards the apex, brochidodromous, above impressed, below slightly raised, diverging at the first pair ca. 40° (minor secondary veins 60°), evenly arching, chordal angle the first pair ca. 25° (minor secondary veins 40°); tertiary veins above inconspicuous, below flat to impressed, random-reticulate; higher order veins above and below inconspicuous; surface above yellowish to greenish-brown, below light yellowish-brown; indument above absent, the veins tomentose, below minutely puberulous, the hairs isolated, up to 0.2 mm long, straight, spreading, ascending, yellowish-brown, caducous after one flush. Staminate inflorescences: basitonic, erect, peduncles ca. 5 cm long, the hypopodia ca. 3 cm X ca. 0.4 mm, branch orders 2, the second-order branches 3?, dispersed, lowest branch up to 0.5 cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 2.5 X 0.6 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle flat, ca. 0.5 X 1.4 mm; tepals membranaceous, elliptic, ca. 2 X 1 mm, at anthesis spreading, yellowish, translucent, adaxially tomentose; stamens of whorls I and II, the anthers sessile, laminar, obovate, ca. 1.2 X 1 mm, glabrous, the locelli 4, apical, in a shallow arch, introrse, the glands absent; whorl III columnar, ca. 1.2 X 0.6 mm, glabrous, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands fused, forming a continuous ring; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish-brown; pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers unknown. Fruits: pedicels up to 14 X 3 mm, gradually enlarging to form the cupule; cupule trumpet-shaped, up to 5 X 7 mm, smooth, the margin undulate, tepals persisting; berry elliptic, up to 25 X 15 mm.
