Trees, to 22 m high, the branchlets thick, angulate, rufous, lepidote, the scales appressed. Leaves subsessile to petiolate, the petioles thick, conspicuously marginate, sometimes to 1.5 cm long, lepidote; leaf blades subcoriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 12.5-30 cm long and 4-7.5 cm wide, acute or acuminate apically, revolute and decurrent on the petiole basally, acutish, the margin entire, obscurely black-punctate, paler beneath and lepidote with appressed scales, glabrate above, the midvein prominent on the lower surface, impressed on the upper surface, the primary lateral veins approximate, conspicuous beneath, openly reticulate. Inflores-cences terminal, equaling the leaves, to 30 cm long, pyramidal, pinnately paniculate, rufous, furfuraceous; pedicels short, 1-3 mm long in fruit. Flowers 5-merous, subglomerate, numerous, small, ca. 4.5 mm long, glabrous; sepals shortly connate basally, suborbicular, ca. 1.5 mm long, broadly rounded, ciliolate; corolla ca. 4 mm long, the petals asymmetrical, acutish; stamens 4 mm long, attached at the base of the corolla, the anthers lanceolate, subequaling the filaments, acute, not punctate, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate, small, the style 3 mm long. Fruit depressed-globose.
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