Small smooth-barked stilt-rooted tree. Leaf bud, stipule outside (glabrous within), petiole and midrib beneath densely persistently evenly tawny pubescent, nervation and lamina beneath and midrib above sparsely so. Twig c. 2 mm ø, terete, becoming smooth. Bud to 1 by 1 mm, small, subglobose. Stipule to 4 mm long, linear, caducous. Leaves 16-34 by 4.5-9 cm, oblong, prominently bullate between the tertiary nerves; base cordate, subequal; acumen to 1 cm long, slender; nerves 17-26 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, depressed above, at 35°-45°, frequently linked to form a looped intramarginal nerve distally; tertiary nerves scalariform, prominent beneath, depressed above; midrib prominent on both surfaces; petiole 3-6 mm long, short, stout. Flowers unknown. Inflorescences unknown. Fruit entirely glabrous; 2 longer calyx lobes to 8 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 4 mm broad above the to 8 by 3 mm ovate thickened saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 15 mm long, lanceolate, acute, slender, similar at base, enclosing the nut. Nut c. 10 by 7 mm, ovoid, apiculate, enclosed in the sepals.
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