Large buttressed tree. Twig apices, stipules, leaf buds, nervation beneath, petiole, panicles and calyx ± densely gold-brown pubescent, caducous on twigs and calyx; leaf beneath brilliant gold lepidote. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, slender, becoming pale brown; stipule scars obscure. Bud to 6 by 4 mm, ovoid, acute; stipules to 7 by 2 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, fugaceous. Leaves (4-)7-14 by (1.5-)2.5-6 cm, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, coriaceous; base obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, broad; nerves 15-25 pairs, spreading, with short secondary nerves, slender but prominent beneath, narrowly depressed above as also the midrib; tertiary nerves laxly subreticulate, +-elevated beneath; petiole 13-23 mm long, slender. Panicle to 18 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, pendent, irregularly branched; branchlets to 2.5 cm long, bearing to 7 flowers. Flower white; buds to 5 by 2 mm, lanceolate; 2 longer sepals lanceolate, subacute; 3 shorter sepals broad at base, prominently slender acuminate; stamens 25, subequal; filaments somewhat shorter than anthers, filiform; anthers broadly oblong, somewhat tapering; appendage very slender, c. 3 times as long as anthers; stylopodium broadly ellipsoid-cylindrical, densely gold puberulent, surmounted by the short but prominent trifid style. Fruit pedicel to 3 by 2 mm, expanding into calyx tube; calyx tube to 14 mm ø, subglobose; 2 longer lobes to 10.5 by 1.8 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 5 mm broad at base; 3 shorter lobes to 20 by 3 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute.
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