Description
Trees: branches basitonic, in axils of cataphylls, pseudo-verticillate; twigs terete, 3 mm diam.; epidermis black; terminal bud plump, 4 X 3 mm; cataphylls caducous; indument puberulous to tomentose, caducous after one flush, the hairs dense to sparse, up to 1 mm long, straight to crisped, erect, yellowish to reddish. Leaves: petioles slender to robust, 0.5–1.2 cm X 2–3 mm, terete; blades chartaceous, flat, elliptic, 5–12 X 4–6 cm; base rounded to obtuse, 90–150°; apex rounded to acute, 60–100°, acuminate for up to 2.5 cm; margin plane; primary vein above raised, below prominent; secondary veins 4–6 pairs, equidistant, brochidodromous, above flat, below raised, diverging at 60°, evenly arching, chordal angle 30°, the angle uniform along blade length; tertiary veins above inconspicuous, below slightly raised, random-reticulate; higher order veins above inconspicuous, below slightly raised; surface above light to dark brown (mottled), below dark brown; indument above absent, the primary vein tomentose, below puberulous, the hairs sparse, up to 1 mm long, straight to curved, erect, yellowish-brown, denser on the veins, caducous after one flush. Staminate inflorescences: acrotonic, erect, peduncles 4–8 cm long, the hypopodia 1.5–5 cm X 1–1.5 mm, branch orders 6, the second-order branches 2–8, dispersed to clustered apically, lowest branch up to 0.6–2 cm long, color and indument of all axes as on twigs; bracts and bracteoles caducous (not seen). Staminate flowers: pedicels 1.2 X 0.4 mm, the diameter even throughout; receptacle obconical to flat, ca. 1 X 1.5 mm; tepals chartaceous, ovate, ca. 1 X 1.2 mm, at anthesis recurved, yellowish-brown, adaxially puberulous; stamens of whorls I and II capitate, the anthers oblong, ca. 0.8 X 0.5 mm, with a few hairs at base, the locelli 4, apical, in a strong arch, introrse, the glands absent; whorl III columnar, ca. 1.2 X 0.5 mm, with a few hairs at base, the locelli 4, the upper pair latrorse, the lower pair extrorse, the glands globose, ca. 0.6 mm diam.; whorl IV absent; all stamens reddish-brown; pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers and fruits unknown.
