Young parts sometimes fugaceous puberulent, all parts otherwise entirely glabrous. Twig to 1 mm ø apically, slender, smooth. Bud 3-4 by 2 mm, narrowly lanceolate, compressed. Stipule 5-8 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 5-8 by 1-3 cm, ovate to lanceolate, comparatively thin, base cuneate, acumen to 17 mm long, narrow, margin frequently undulate; petiole 0.7-1 cm long, very slender. Panicle to 10 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, wrinkled on drying, irregularly doubly branched; bracteoles and bracts small, linear, fugaceous. Flower bud to 10 by 3.5 mm, fusiform, acute. Sepals glabrous, equal, narrowly deltoid, subacute. Corolla white; petals large, broadly elliptic, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens c. 30, subequal, almost 7 length of style; filaments united in a tube around the base of the ovary, the tube almost half as long as the anthers; anther narrowly oblong, the cells tapering, acute; appendage to connective short, erect, slightly exceeding anther. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 2-3 times as long as ovary, filiform, glabrous. Fruit calyx glabrous; base with to 8 mm ø, shallow or to 5 mm deep cup, unconstricted at the rim, tapering gradually and cuneate at the pedicel; lobes equal, to 6.5 by 0.8 cm, glabrous, oblong-spatulate, narrow, subacute, to 2 mm broad at the base, very thin and opaque between the reticulations of the nerves. Nut to 1.4 cm long and Ø, ovoid to globose, glabrous, with acute style remnant, resting on the considerably narrower calyx cup and pushing the lobes out to a wide angle.
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