Medium-sized smooth barked narrowly buttressed tree. Twig apices, leaf buds, petioles, base of peduncle, ovary and stylopodium fugaceous puberulent, otherwise glabrous. Twigs c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, terete, rugulose, dark brown. Leaves 2.7-6.5 by 1-2.5 cm, lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, lustrous; margin subrevolute; base +-equal, cuneate, apex with to 1.5 cm long slender caudate acumen; nerves c. 10 pairs, very slender and +-obscure on both surfaces or slightly elevated beneath, slightly depressed above, ascending, arched, with a few shorter obscure secondary nerves; tertiary nerves reticulate, obscure; midrib sharply prominent beneath, obscure and depressed above; petiole 5-8 mm long, very slender. Panicles to 1.5 cm long, short, slender, axillary or terminal, singly branched; branchlets few, bearing to 5 flowers, bracts and bracteoles fugaceous. Flower bud to 5 by 3 mm, ellipsoid, rather large. 2 outer sepals ovate, acute; 3 inner suborbicular, subacute. Stamens 15; filaments compressed at base, tapering and filiform below the subglobose anthers; appendage about twice as long as anther, slender. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, without stylopodium; style about twice as long as ovary, filiform, tapering. Fruit pedicel c. 1 mm long, short; 2 longer calyx lobes to 3.5 by 1 cm, broadly spatulate, obtuse, tapering to 2 mm broad above the to 5 by 4 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 5 by 5 mm, broadly ovate, acute; nut to 15 by 5 mm, narrowly ovoid, resinous, tapering to a prominent attenuate apiculus.
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