Medium sized, usually leaning, tree with smooth bark. Young parts shortly densely pale grey-brown tomentose, persistent on twig, leaf bud, stipule, panicle and petiole, fugaceous elsewhere. Twig to 1.5 mm ø apically, terete, becoming smooth, glabrous. Bud to 1 mm long, ovoid, obtuse. Stipule to 2 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 7-12 by 2.8-4.8 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate; base narrowly or broadly cuneate; acumen subequal, to 1.5 cm long, caudate; nerves many, c. 10 pairs with long secondaries, slender, at 60°-80°, arched, the basal pair continuing as intramarginal nerves to 1/3 up the margin; tertiaries ± reticulate, indistinct; midrib flat or slightly raised beneath, prominently raised above; petiole 7-10 mm long. Panicle to 6 cm long, axillary, rarely terminal, borne singly or to 3-axillary, terete; regularly singly or doubly branched; branchlets to 1.5 cm long, bearing to 7 flowers; bracteoles to 2 mm long, ovate, acuminate, 3 inner lobes thinner, elliptic, mucronate. Petals narrowly lanceolate, densely pubescent outside, glabrous within. Stamens 15; filaments broad at base, tapering and filiform distally; anthers subglobose, the posterior cells somewhat smaller than the anterior cells; appendage to connective c. 2 times length of anther. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style filiform, tapering, as long as ovary. Fruit calyx glabrous, tapering into 7 by 5.5 mm expanded, but unthickened and hardly saccate, base; 3 shorter lobes unequal, 1-2.5 cm long, acute, tapering, cupped and enveloping the nut. Nut to 11 by 6 mm, narrowly ovoid, tapering to a short acute style remnant.
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