Medium-sized tree. All known parts of mature tree glabrous. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, very slender, straight, blackish; stipule scars obscure. Leaf bud minute; stipules fugaceous. Leaves 6.5-9 by 2.2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base abruptly cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, cuspidate; nervation subdryobalanoid; main nerves c. 14 pairs, arched, ascending, with many ± shorter secondaries, elevated beneath, obscurely depressed above as also the midrib; tertiary nerves obscure; petiole 9-11 mm long, slender. Flowers unknown. Panicle to 2 cm long, slender, hardly branched or unbranched. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long, broadening into receptacle. 2 longer calyx lobes to 5 by 1.2 cm, spatulate, subacute, tapering to c. 2 mm broad above the to 5 by 3 mm elliptic saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 10 by 3 mm, ovate, frequently shortly winged apically. Nut to 7 by 5 mm, ovoid, the exposed apex surmounted by a truncate stylopodium and central apiculus.
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