Tree to 15 m, deciduous. Bark smooth, white or light grey throughout, sometimes scaly at the base. Juvenile leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly lanceolate, glabrous or setose on the petiole and midvein. Adult leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, petiolate, ovate to broadly elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, thick; lamina 12–15 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, shining, bright green, with crinkled or undulate margins, rounded to cordate at base, slightly discolorous; lateral veins prominent, at 45°–60°; intramarginal vein double, one almost at margin, the other up to 4 mm from margin; petiole flattened or channelled, 1–1.5 cm long. Conflorescence an axillary, condensed panicle, many-flowered, sessile or on terete peduncle 1–2 mm long; pedicels 15–30 mm. Buds obovoid to pyriform; operculum hemispherical-conical, acuminate, 2–7 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–12 mm long, 6–10 mm wide. Fruits truncate-ovoid to suburceolate, 10–18 mm long, 8–14 mm wide. Seeds not winged.
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