Medium-sized tree with flaky bark. Young parts fugaceous puberulent, panicle persistently so or glabrous, domatia and parts of petals exposed in bud persistently so. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, terete, rugulose, dark brown. Buds minute; stipules fugaceous, not seen. Leaves 4.5-12 by 2-4.5 cm, elliptic-falcate to ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base unequal, cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, slender, tapering; nerves 9-11 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, +-applanate above, arched, at 45°-65°, with (young trees) or without small axillary pubescent domatia; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, very slender, barely elevated beneath; petiole 6-8 mm long. Panicle to 3.5 cm long, slender, terminal or to 2-axillary, singly branched; branchlets bearing to 4 cream flowers; bracteoles fugaceous. Flower buds to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid. 2 outer sepals lanceolate-acuminate; 3 inner sepals suborbicular, mucronate. Stamens 10, equal; filaments compressed, tapering, rather broad; appendages aristate, times as long as the oblong anthers. Ovary and stylopodium broadly cylindrical, truncate, slightly tapering, densely puberulent; style shorter than ovary but prominent. Fruit pedicel c. 2 mm long, slender. 2 longer calyx lobes to 5.5 by 1 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 2 mm broad above the to 4 by 4 mm elliptic saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 3 by 2 mm, elliptic, similarly saccate. Nut to 6 by 6 mm, broadly ovoid, with minute slender apical style remnant.
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