Medium-sized, smooth-barked tree, often stilt-rooted. Panicles sparsely persistently puberulent, twigs and petioles fugaceously so, petals outside persistently densely gold pubescent. Twig 2-3 mm ø apically, becoming dark brown, terete; with prominent ribs along the leaf traces; stipule scars minute. Bud to 2 by 2 mm, ovoid; stipules fugaceous. Leaves 9-18 by 3.5-9 cm, +-elliptic, coriaceous, glaucescent beneath in mature trees; base cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, slender, prominent; nerves 12-15 pairs, slender but relatively prominent beneath, obscure above, with many distinct short secondary nerves; tertiary nerves slender, subscalariform, evident to obscure in mature trees; midrib distinctly elevated on both surfaces; petioles 10-15 mm long. Panicle to 4 cm long, terminal or axillary to ramiflorous, with to 2 cm long branchlets bearing to 8 congested secund flowers. Flower bud to 4 by 3 mm, ovoid. Sepals subequal, broadly ovate, the outer 2 subacuminate, the inner 3 mucronate. Stamens 15; filaments broadly compressed at base, tapering and filiform distally; appendages aristate, c. 3 x length of the small subglobose anthers; style and stylopodium hour-glass-shaped, equal in height but the ovary the broader; style short, tapering. Fruit pedicel to 1 mm long, slender. 2 longer calyx lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 5 mm broad above the to 8 by 5 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 20 by 5 mm, linear-lorate, similar at base, completely enclosing nut. Nut to 9 by 7 mm, ovoid, apiculate.
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