Small, smooth, barked stilt-rooted tree. Twigs, petioles and panicles +-persistently greyish sericeous, outside of calyx and leaf nervation below caducously so, parts of petals exposed in bud densely pubescent. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, becoming terete, ± rugulose. Buds minute, ovoid; stipules fugaceous, not seen. Leaves 10.5-25 by 4-8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous; margin subrevolute, base obtuse or shallowly cordate; acumen to 3 cm long, prominent, slender; nerves 15-21 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, ± obscurely depressed above, arched towards the margin, at 55°-70°, without secondaries; tertiary nerves scalariform, very slender but elevated beneath; midrib prominent beneath, elevated above; petiole 8-12 mm long. Panicle to 7 cm long, 1-axillary to ramiflorous, lax, slender; singly branched, branchlets to 1.5 cm long, bearing to 3 secund flowers. Flower buds to 5 by 3 mm, ellipsoid, rather long. Sepals subequal, suborbicular, pubescent, fimbriate, patent. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments compressed and broad at base, tapering and filiform in the distal 1/2; anthers small, subglobose; appendage c. 3.5 times length of anthers, very long and slender. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly hour-glass shaped, with short but distinct columnar style. Fruit pedicel very short. Calyx lobes to 8 by 6 mm, subequal, ovate, acute, saccate, +-thinly incrassate. Nut to 10 by 6 mm, ovoid, crowned by a prominent medially swollen stylopodium.
Forming pure stands in the more open,secondary forest formations. Locally common in dense primary forest and the more open secondary formations, growing in clay soils, including limestone; at elevations below 300 metres.
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Locally common, primary and secondary forest below 300 m, clay soil including limestone.
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