Medium-sized flaky barked tree with stilt roots and flying buttresses. Twig endings, petioles, midrib above and panicles densely ± persistently greyish puberulent, petals outside densely cream pubescent. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, terete, becoming dark brown, smooth; internodes short; stipule scars obscure. Leaf bud minute; stipules minute, fugaceous. Leaves 4.5-7.5 by 1.5-4 cm, ovate to lanceolate, subcoriaceous; base cuneate, shortly decurrent; acumen to 1.5 cm long, slender, caudate; nervation dryobalanoid, main nerves c. 14 pairs with many subequal secondaries, distinct and frequently with +-prominent axillary pubescent domatia especially in young trees; midrib slender but distinctly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 6-10 mm long, slender. Panicles to 2 cm long, axillary, slender, short, with to 8 mm long short branchlets bearing to 4 secund pale yellow flowers. Flower bud to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid. Sepals ovate, the 3 outer somewhat longer, acute or subacuminate, the inner acute. Stamens 15, unequal; filaments broadly compressed at base, tapering and filiform distally; appendage very slender, c. twice length of the subglobose anthers. Ovary ovoid, style somewhat longer, columnar, tapering, villous towards base. Fruit pedicel to 2 cm long, very slender; 2 longer fruit calyx lobes to 3 by 0.5 cm, spatulate, narrowly obtuse, c. 1.5 cm broad above the to 4 by 2.5 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 8 by 4 mm, ovate-acuminate, closely enveloping nut. Nut to 7 by 4 mm, ovoid, apiculate.
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