Medium-sized smooth barked tree. Young twigs, petioles and base of peduncle caducous tawny puberulent. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, somewhat ribbed, becoming blackish, smooth. Leaves 5-9 by 2.4-4.5 cm, ovate, coriaceous; margin subrevolute; base +-equal, broadly cuneate; acumen to 15 mm long, slender; nervation dryobalanoid, main nerves 8-10 pairs, slender but distinct elevated beneath, arched, with 1 or a few shorter less distinct secondary nerves; tertiary nerves reticulate, evident beneath; midrib sharply prominent beneath, depressed and obscure above; petiole 6-7 mm long, short, slender. Flowers unknown. Panicle to 2.5 cm long, terminal or axillary to ramiflorous, slender, singly branched; bracts unknown, caducous. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long, slender. 2 longer calyx lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, subacute, tapering to 2 mm broad above the 4 by 2 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 6 by 3 mm, ovate, acuminate, shorter than nut; nut to 8 by 4 mm, ovoid-acuminate, tapering to a short apiculus bearing the vestiges of a distinct stylopodium.
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