Tree, c. 15 m by c. 30 cm ø; bark yellowish brown, fissured. Branchlets greyish black, with minute lenticels, initially densely set with fulvous stellate tomentum; terminal bud ovoid, 2-3 by 1-2 mm; scales ovate-acute, with dense stellate tomentum. Leaves thin-coriaceous, 3½-10 by 2½-5 cm (index 1.8-2), widest below or at the middle; surfaces strongly discolorous, above glabrous, glossy, greyish green, underneath with a dense cover of rufous, adpressed, stellate hairs; base rounded and abruptly acute, apex acute or abruptly ½ cm acuminate; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, impressed above; nerves 7-9 pairs, parallel, ascending, at an angle of 50-70°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, dense, subscalariform, obscure on both surfaces; petiole 1-3 cm, 1 mm ø, adaxially flat. Male rachises 4-7 cm, 1-2 mm ø, in paniculate clusters, densely rufous stellate-tomentose; bracts and bracteoles ovate-acute; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3, perianth deeply incised, lobes 6, ovate, 1-1½ mm, densely stellate-tomentose outside, stamens 12, filaments 3-4 mm, anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1½-2 mm ø. Cupule ovoid-globose, 3½-4½ cm; wall 1-2 mm thick; peduncle ½-1 cm; spines much-branched, needle-shaped, 1-2 cm, densely set; dehiscence into two equal halves or irregular. Fruit solitary, ovoid-conical, adaxially flat, 1½-2½ cm; wall ½-1 mm thick, glabrous, rugose, adnate to the cupule except for the top which is set with a thin cover of silvery tomentum; cotyledons flat-convex.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 30 m tall. The leaves are oval and 5-13 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The leaf stalk is softly hairy. The seeds are oval and 38 mm long. They are in a capsule 33 mm across.
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