Large tree with pale shaggily flaky bark. Leaf undersurface densely golden lepidote; nerves and midrib beneath, leaf buds, petiole, twigs and ovary densely persistently pale brown puberulent; panicles and fruit calyx sparsely so; parts of petals exposed in bud densely greyish puberulent. Twigs c. 3 mm ø, becoming terete, pale brown, rugulose. Leaf buds to 4 by 2 mm, lanceolate, acute; stipules not seen. Leaves 7-11 by 2.5-5.5 cm, oblong or oblanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base cuneate or sometimes obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, slender, prominent, down-curved and bending over on pressing; nerves (15-)18-20 pairs, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, less so but distinct above, at 65°-80°; secondary nerves obscure or absent; tertiary nerves densely reticulate, evident on both surfaces; midrib slender but prominent beneath, obscure, deeply depressed, above; petioles 15-27 mm long, slender, prominently geniculate. Panicles to 12 cm long, slender, lax, pendent, terminal or axillary, singly (if axillary) or doubly branched; branchlets to 15 mm long, bearing to 3 flowers. Flower buds to 6 by 3 mm. Sepals narrowly deltoid, 2 longer subacute, 3 shorter prominently acuminate; stamens 35-38, subequal; filaments +-equal to the oblong somewhat tapering anthers, filiform; appendage very slender, c. 1.75 times as long as anthers; stylopodium broadly ellipsoid-cylindrical, densely golden stellate-puberulent, crowned by the prominently trifid acute style. Fruit pedicel to 4 mm long, slender; calyx tube to 7 mm ø subglobose; 2 longer lobes to 10 by 1.5 cm, narrowly spatulate, narrowly obtuse, c. 3 mm wide at base; 3 shorter lobes to 12 by 2 mm, linear; stylopodium cylindric, tapering, subacute.
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