Medium-sized tree. Outside of calyx and panicle fugaceous puberulent, parts otherwise glabrous. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, ribbed at first, verrucose lenticellate, becoming smooth. Leaves 14-33 by 5-10 cm, lorate to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, coriaceous; margin narrowly subrevolute; base obtuse or cordate; acumen to 1 cm long (longer in young trees), slender, prominent; nerves many but relatively distant, distinct and prominent, beneath, obscure but distinctly narrowly depressed above as also the midrib, arched just within the margin and then uniting with a ± straight intramarginal nerve; with shorter less distinct parallel secondary nerves and ± obscure reticulate tertiary nerves; petiole 7-12 mm long, short, stout. Panicles to 14 cm long, singly or doubly (if terminal) branched, terminal or subterminal axillary, lax; branchlets to 3.5 cm long, bearing to 4 flowers; bracts and bracteoles to 2 by 2 mm, suborbicular-del-toid, not at first caducous. Flower bud to 10 by 4 mm, ellipsoid, acute; sepals narrowly deltoid, subacute; petals ovate, acute, glabrous; stamens subequal, slightly shorter than the style; filaments compressed, tapering distally, united at base, c. 1/2 length of the linear tapering anthers; appendages acicular, short but distinctly exceeding anther apex; ovary narrowly ovoid, puberulent; style filiform, glabrous, c. 2.5 times length of ovary. Fruit pedicel to 4 by 2 mm; calyx lobes to 4 by 2 cm, broadly spatulate, obtuse, c. 8 mm broad above the to 6 by 10 mm basal cup; nut to 16 by 15 mm, depressed ovoid, apiculate.
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