Medium-sized tree. Leaf bud and stipule shortly persistently pale yellow-brown pubescent, other parts glabrous. Twig to 1.5 mm ø apically, slender, smooth, terete. Bud to 1 mm long, subglobose. Stipule to 2.5 by 1 mm, hastate, acute, fugaceous. Leaves 8-14 by 2.5-5 cm, thinly coriaceous, ovate; base obtuse; acumen 5-15 mm long, caudate; margin subrevolute; nerves c. 11 pairs, subdryobalanoid, distinct, slightly raised beneath, with shorter secondaries, at 55°-75°, strongly curved; tertiary nerves reticulate; midrib prominently raised beneath, narrow, depressed above, petiole 7-10 mm long, slender. Panicle to 4 cm long, axillary, short, terete, glabrous, singly branched; bracteoles to 1 mm long, deltoid, glabrous, subpersistent. Flower bud small, ovoid to subglobose. Calyx sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous within; 2 outer lobes suborbicular, subacute or obtuse; 3 inner lobes suborbicular, ± shortly mucronate. Petals oblong, obtuse, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15; filaments broad at base, tapering; anthers subglobose; appendage to connective 2-3 times length of anther, very slender. Ovary and stylopodium glabrous but for the puberulent apex, cylindrical, truncate, ovary slightly the broader; style short, glabrous. Fruit pedicel c. 1 mm long, short, impressed in the base of the calyx. Calyx lobes to 14 by 12 mm, subequal, ovate, chartaceous, ± erose at the subacute apex, broadly imbricate, saccate, completely enclosing the nut and closely adpressed to it. Nut to 14 by 14 mm, subglobose, crowned by the persistent truncate stylopodium.
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