Medium-sized tree with flaky bark and steep buttresses. Parts glabrous but for the persistently pubescent parts of the petals exposed in bud. Twigs 2-3 mm ø, rather stout, terete; buds and stipules not seen. Leaves (6-)8-20 by (2.5-)3.8-7 cm, elliptic, coriaceous, lustrous, minutely punctate above; margin narrowly revolute; base broadly cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, tapering; nerves 8-11 pairs, prominent beneath, elevated but frequently set in a groove above, arched, ascending at 50°-70°; domatia minute, porous, or absent; without secondaries; tertiary nerves scalariform, obscure; midrib prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above; petiole 7-15 mm long, rather stout. Panicle to 4 cm long, slender, terminal or to 2-axillary or ramiflorous; singly branched, branchlets to 12 mm long, bearing to 6 flowers; bracteoles fugaceous, not seen. Flower buds to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid. Sepals subequal, broadly ovate-deltoid, obtuse. Stamens 15, shorter than style, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments broad and compressed at base, tapering and filiform in the distal 1/2; anthers subglobose; appendages c. twice as long as anthers, slender. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly pyriform with distinct medial constriction, tapering to the short but distinct columnar style. Fruit subsessile; calyx lobes to 7 by 8 mm, subequal, shorter than nut, broadly ovate, subacute, saccate, thickened. Nut to 10 by 6 mm, ovoid, shortly apiculate.
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