Tree, c. 20 m by c. 30 cm Ø. Innovations densely set with short stellate hairs. Branchlets glabrous, with minute lenticels; terminal bud ellipsoid, 2-3 by 1 mm; scales linear. Stipules linear-acute, 5-7 by 1 mm, soon caducous. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate-or elliptic-oblong, 6-13 by 2-5 cm, entire; surfaces more or less concolorous, glabrous; base rounded and abruptly acute, slightly asymmetrical, apex 5-10 mm acuminate; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves 10-13 pairs, parallel, ascending, at an angle of 60-70° with the midrib, arcuating towards the margin; reticulation fine, dense, scalariform, distinct beneath; petiole 5-10 mm, slender, glabrous, slightly thickened at base, adaxially flat. Cupule excentrical-ly pear-shaped, adaxially flat, 2-3 cm Ø, gradually tapering towards the 1 cm long peduncle; wall ½-1 mm thick; surface sparsely set with patches of flattish tubercles except on the adaxial side, inde-hiscent. Fruit solitary, pear-shaped or reniform, excentric, c. 3 by 2 cm, wall woody, c. 1 mm thick, completely adnate to the cupule.
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