Medium-sized scaly barked buttressed tree. Young twigs, leaf buds and stipules densely ± persistently tawny puberulent, petioles caducously so. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, much branched; internodes short. Buds small, ovoid, subacute; stipules small, fugaceous. Leaves 5-10 by 3-4.5 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, coriaceous, margin subrevolute; base obtuse to broadly cuneate; acumen to 8 mm long, slender; nerves 4-5 pairs, frequently all arising from the proximal 1/2 of the leaf, arched and coalescing midway to the margin forming an almost unlooped continuous prominent intramarginal nerve continuing to the acumen, the whole slender but prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above; intramarginal nerve with indistinct lateral branches to the margin; tertiary nerves scalariform, evident beneath; midrib stout, prominent beneath, elevated above; petiole 8-10 mm long, slender. Panicle unknown; flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel c. 2 mm long, stout; 2 longer calyx lobes to 5 by 1 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 2 mm broad above the to 6 by 3 mm narrowly ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 5 by 4 mm, ovate, obtuse to acute, similarly saccate. Nut to 15 by 6 cm, narrowly ovoid, the stylopodium showing as a prominent medially thickened apiculus.
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