An epiphytic shrub when young; branchlets rather sharply angular, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, gradually acuminate, the acumen 1/2– 3/4 in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 3 1/2–5 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, finely verrucose on the upper surface, glabrous below; midrib flat above, prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to and becoming very slender at the apex of the blade; lateral nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45°, arcuate, looped some distance from the margin, prominent and pale-coloured below; tertiary nerves primarily following the direction of the lateral, very slender, eventually branching, distinct below; petiole 3–4 lin. long, covered with glabrous thin transversely splitting deciduous bark; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles in axillary pairs, or perhaps sometimes solitary, sessile, obovoid-globose, 3–4 lin. in diam., glabrous. Basal bracts 2, more or less semicircular, small, with submembranous margins which break up and fall away, glabrous. Ostiole small and inconspicuous, 2-lipped; bracts all descending into the receptacle, linear-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous. Male flowers sessile, with a solitary very small stamen. Female flowers sessile, with 3 obovate obtuse perianth-segments. Achene broadly ellipsoid; style slender, with a slightly thickened stigma.
