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Fruits 1.7–2 × 1.5–1.7 cm, laterally compressed, oblique, with the style persisting as a short apiculum at the apex, brown or blackish-brown tomentellous.
Small to medium-sized tree up to 15(20) m high with a broad crown, or sometimes a low spreading shrub 4 m high or less; bark smooth, grey.
Flowers 7.5–9.5 mm across, in panicles up to 12 × 10 cm; inflorescence axes brown pubescent or tomentose; pedicels 2.5–4 mm.
Seeds 1 per fruit (or perhaps 2 but not yet recorded in this species), brown, shiny, 8–10 × 6.5–7.5 × 3.5 mm, ± lenticular.
Stamens 2, inserted opposite two adjacent sepals; filaments strongly geniculate about their middle; anthers 1.7–2 mm long.
An evergreen tree. It can grow 30 m tall. It can be a low shrub. The trunk is 30-60 cm across. It has rounded buttresses.
Buds up to 3–4 mm long; sepals 5, 3–3.5 mm long, grey or grey-brown pubescent outside, white to deep cream inside.
Petals 1, c.2.5 mm long, ovate, inserted between the stamens and overlapping them in bud.
Ovary c.1.5 mm long, brown or blackish-brown tomentose; style 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous.
Young branches pubescent.
