Small tree. Young twigs and petioles caducous pale grey-tawny puberulent. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, slender, horizontal; stipule scars minute. Leaf bud minute; stipule acicular, fugaceous. Leaf 5-10 by 2-5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base cuneate; acumen to 1.5 cm long, caudate; nervation subdryobalanoid; nerves c. 9 pairs, arched, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, obscure above, with ± prominently buff pubescent axillary domatia and short slender secondary nerves; tertiary nerves densely subscalariform, ± obscure; midrib slender but prominent beneath, obscurely depressed above; petiole 5-11 mm long, slender. Panicle to 4 cm long, slender, hardly branched; flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long; 2 longer calyx lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, to 5 mm broad above the to 15 by 10 mm auriculate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 2 cm long, ovate-auriculate, similarly thickened centrally; nut to 10 by 7 mm, ovoid, apiculate, completely enclosed in calyx.
Home