Tree, 7-10 m high, 15-20 cm in diam. Twigs minutely pubescent or glabrous. Leaves ovate, ovate-oblong, or oblong, acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse to rounded, margin entire and slightly recurved to spiny-denticulate, base slightly oblique, acute, obtuse, or rounded, 7-14 by 3-6 cm, glabrous on either side, firmly chartaceous; midrib impressed above, nerves 7-12 pairs. Petioles 0.5-1 cm, minutely pubescent or glabrous. Stipules ovate-lanceolate to linear, very acute 4-5 by 4/5-1 1/3 mm. Spikes 3-8 cm long, 1-1.5 cm peduncled, rhachis, peduncle, and calyces minutely whitish stellate-pubescent. Flowers white. Calyx lobes ovate, 3-5 mm long, acute to acuminate, with a tufted-hairy apiculus. Petals 11-20 by 1½-2 mm, with c. 2.5 mm long, basal lobes, just above these lobes with a sharp inward curve. Filaments 3/5-1 mm long, dorsally and ventrally blackish pubescent, curved outward, at the base connate with the base of the petals and falling off with these; anthers 4/5-1 mm long, awn 1 1/3-2 mm. Top of ovary light yellowish short-villous; styles less than 1 mm; stigmas minute.
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