Medium-sized, hard-wooded, scaly-barked tree. Twig apices, petiole, panicle and calyx outside ± caducous buff pubescent, parts of petals exposed in bud and sometimes panicle persistently so. Twigs c. 2 mm ø much branched, terete, smooth. Buds small, ovoid; stipules not seen. Leaves (5.5-)8-22 by (2.2-)2.5-8 cm, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, +-lustrous; margin ± revolute; base subequal, obtuse or sometimes broadly cuneate; acumen to 1.5 cm long, usually short, tapering; nerves 8-11 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, slightly elevated above, arched, at 45°-55° except at base, often with prominent axillary porous canaliculate domatia; tertiary nerves subscalariform, evident on both surfaces though more distinct beneath; midrib prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above; petiole 10-16 cm long. Panicle to 9 cm long, terminal, to 3-axillary or ramiflorous, slender, pendant, singly branched; branchlets to 13 mm long, short, bearing to 4 flowers; bracteoles minute, deltoid, fugaceous. Flower buds to 2 mm long, ellipsoid. 2 outer sepals long, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate; 3 inner broadly ovate, ± distinctly acuminate. Stamens 15, in 3 subequal verticils, short; filaments broad and compressed at base, tapering and filiform beneath the oblong anthers; appendages c. 1.5 times length of anther, slender. Ovary and stylopodium stoutly pyri-form, stylopodium punctate; style short but distinct, columnar. Mature fruit unknown; pedicel at least 3 mm long; sepals unequal, 2 aliform, spatulate, obtuse; 3 shorter lobes exceeded by the ovoid apiculate nut.
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