Trees to 20 m tall. Branchlets rust-colored sericeous; buds pubescent. Petiole 2-4 cm, slender, silvery-white sericeous; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 8-15 × 3.5-7.5 cm, leathery, abaxially silvery-white sericeous, or rarely glabrescent, not black punctate, adaxially sericeous on veins, glabrescent, lateral veins 6-8 per side, prominently raised abaxially, veinlets prominently raised abaxially, conspicuous adaxially, base acute or broadly cuneate, margin serrulate, apex long acuminate or nearly caudate, acumen 1-1.5 cm. Raceme 2-4.5 cm; peduncle appressed sericeous; bracts caducous, lanceolate. Pedicel 3-5 mm, pubescent. Flowers polygamous, usually pendulous. Sepals 4 or 5, lanceolate, 4-5 mm, abaxially gray puberulent, adaxially nearly glabrous. Petals 4 or 5, oblong, ca. 4 mm, glabrous, 5-or 6-incised at apices. Stamens 12-14, ca. 2.5 mm; anthers not awned at apices. Disk inconspicuously lobed, pubescent. Ovary 2-loculed, sparsely sericeous; style ca. 2.5 mm, pubescent, 2-or 3-lobed at tip. Drupe shiny, ellipsoid, small, 1.5-2 × 0.8-1.1 cm, 1-loculed; endocarp ca. 1 mm thick. Seed 1, ca. 1 cm. Fl. Apr-May.
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A medium sized tree. It grows to 20 m tall. The trunk is straight. The leaves are 8-15 cm tall by 4-8 cm wide. They are silvery white underneath. The fruit are shiny and oval. They are 2 cm long by 1 cm wide. There is one seed. It is 1 cm long.
A tropical plant. It grows in secondary forests. In central Vietnam it grows between 150-900 altitude. It is shade tolerant when young. In southern China it grows in evergreen forests at about 1,400 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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