Tree 10-20 m, glabrous the inflorescences excepted; young branches slender, pale brown. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rarely oblanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate, narrowed and sometimes unequal at the base, subcoriaceous, yellowish-green, grey-green when dry, shining above, dull beneath, shallowly crenate, (6-)7-10.5 by (2½-)4½-5 cm; nerves 8-10 pairs, little prominent, veins minutely reticulated when dry; petiole (3-)4-5(-7) mm. Panicle 7-10 cm, composed of several racemes, the lower ones from the uppermost leaf-axils; rhachis slender, sparsely tomentose. Flowers 5-6-merous, greenish-yellow with a silvery tinge, tomentose, laxly arranged along the rhachis. Pedicels slender, 4-5(-8) mm. Bracts ovate-acuminate, minute, very early caducous. Calyx-tube infundibuliform, c. 2 mm, minutely grey-tomentose. Sepals lanceolate, obtuse, 4 by 1.5 mm, grey-tomentulose on both sides. Petals obovate, clawed at the base, 5 by 3 mm, reticulate, tomentose, somewhat accrescent after anthesis. Stamens 4-5 at the base of each petal. Filaments glabrous, 2 mm. Ovary tomentose. Styles 3, glabrous upwards.
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