Medium-sized, prominently stilt-rooted tree with smooth bark. Young twig, leaf bud, stipule (both surfaces), petiole, and nervation beneath densely shortly persistently brown pubescent. Twig to 1 mm ø apically, branching horizontally, smooth, glabrous. Bud to 1.5 mm long, subglobose. Stipule to 3 mm long, linear. Leaves 5.5-9 by 1.5-3.5 cm, lanceolate; base unequal, cuneate; acumen to 1.5 cm long, caudate; nerves 7-9 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly curved, at 30°-40°, with prominent pilose axillary domatia; tertiary nerves slender, scalariform, with slight reticulations, diagonal to nerves; midrib prominent, rounded beneath, narrow, depressed above; petiole 4-7 mm long, slender. Panicle to 2 cm long. Flowers cream; bud to 6 by 2 mm, lanceolate. Calyx sparsely pubescent; sepals ovate, acute, the outer 2 somewhat longer than the inner 3. Stamens 15, in unequal verticils; anthers subglobose; appendage to connective c. 3 times length of anthers, slender. Ovary and stylopodium pyriform, glabrous, surmounted by a prominent style equalling the stylopodium in length. Fruit calyx puberulent, glabrescent; 2 longer lobes to 2.8 by 0.6 cm, spatulate, obtuse, to 1.5 mm broad above the to 2.5 mm by 2 mm elliptic shallowly saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 4 mm long, obtuse, similar at base. Nut to 4 by 3 mm, ovoid, glabrous.
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