Description
Trees: branches basitonic, in axils of cataphylls; twigs angular, soon becoming terete, ca. 3 mm diam.; epidermis brownish to black, barely visible due to indument cover; terminal bud plump, ca. 5 X 3 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument sericeous, caducous by next flush, the hairs dense, up to 0.25 mm long, straight, appressed ascending to erect, golden yellow. Leaves: petioles slender, 1.5–3 cm X 1.5–2.5 mm, adaxially flattened; blades chartaceous, flat, widely elliptic to oblong (obovate), 6–14 X 3–5.5 cm; base cuneate to acute, minutely decurrent, 65–80°; apex rounded, 80–100°, mucronate up to 1 cm long; margin recurved at base or raised; primary vein above flat, below prominent; secondary veins 3–4 pairs, equidistant, eucamptodromous, above flat, below slightly raised, diverging at ca. 30°, gradually arching, chordal angle ca. 20°, the angle increasing towards apex; tertiary veins above and below slightly raised, random-reticulate to scalariform; higher order veins above and below flat; surface above shiny brown, below dull brown (grayish on young leaves); indument above absent, below minutely sericeous, the hairs sparse, up to 0.4 mm long, straight, appressed, ascending, yellowish to translucent, persistent. Staminate inflorescences: along whole length of flush, erect, peduncles (4–)5–7 cm long, the hypopodia 2.5–3.5 cm X ca. 1 mm, branch orders 4, the second-order branches 3–5, dispersed, lowest branch up to 2.5 cm long, all axes color indument as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels ca. 2.5 X 0.6 mm, gradually enlarging to form an obconical receptacle ca. 1.5 X 2 mm; tepals membranaceous, ovate, ca. 1.7 X 2 mm (inner whorl slightly larger), at anthesis spreading, yellowish, adaxially puberulous; stamens of whorls I and II, the anthers sessile, globose, ca. 0.8 X 1.3 mm (whorl II slightly smaller), glabrous, the locelli (1,) 2 (3, 4), apical, in a shallow arch, introrse; whorl III columnar, ca. 1 X 0.7 mm, glabrous, the anthers columnar, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands 2, minute ca. 2 mm broad, black; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish; pistillode minute, elongate, ca. 2 mm long. Pistillate plant not seen.
