Small or medium-sized smooth-barked tree. Young twig, petiole and leaf nervation beneath sparsely caducous puberulent, leaf bud persistently so. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, terete, smooth; stipule scars small, obscure. Bud to 1 by 1 mm, minute. Stipule to 2 mm long, linear-falcate, caducous. Leaf 6-12 by 1.5-5 cm, ± narrowly elliptic, thinly coriaceous, undulate, with cuneate base and to 2 cm long prominent caudate acumen; nerves 6-7 pairs, slender, raised beneath, at 25°-40°; tertiary nerves slender, densely scalariform; midrib prominent, terete beneath, applanate to slightly raised, slender, above; petiole c. 6 mm long, short, grooved on upper side. Panicle to 3 cm long, axillary, terete, glabrous, lax; singly branched, branchlets bearing to 3 flowers; bracts and bracteoles to 2 mm long, linear. Flower bud 4 by 3 mm, subglobose. Calyx lobes fimbriate; 2 outer lobes ovate, acute; 3 inner lobes suborbicular, submucronate. Petals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, sparsely puberulent on parts exposed in bud, pale pink. Stamens 15; filaments broad at base, tapering and filiform distally; anthers oblong; appendage to connective c. 3 times length of anthers, slender, filiform. Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical, subtruncate, glabrous, surmounted by a short style. Fruit entirely glabrous. Pedicel to 3 mm long, broadening into fruit. 2 longer calyx lobes to 10 by 1.3 cm, narrowly spatulate, subacute, c. 5 mm wide above the to 9 by 15 mm subauriculate saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 20 by 9 mm, ovate, similarly subauriculate, enclosing and obscuring the nut. Nut to 12 by 10 mm, ovoid, with minutely truncate mucronate apex.
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