Large buttressed flaky-barked tree. Leaf bud, panicle, parts of perianth exposed in bud, and ovary densely persistently pale buff pubescent, parts otherwise glabrescent. Twigs c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, becoming terete, smooth or rugulose. Buds minute; stipule unknown, fugaceous. Leaves 9-13 by 3-6.5 cm, elliptic to narrowly ovate, chartaceous and undulate on drying; base ± equal, cuneate, +-shortly decurrent; acumen to 2 cm long, slender, tapering; nerves 7-8 (to 10 in young trees) pairs, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, arched, ascending at 65°-55°, without or with a few porous canaliculate domatia; tertiary nerves scalariform, ± distinctly elevated beneath; petiole 10-15 mm long, slender. Panicle to 13 mm long, erect, slender, to 2-axillary or terminal, singly branched; branchlets to 3.5 cm long, bearing to 7 secund flowers; bracteoles fugaceous. Flower buds to 3 by 2 mm, ovoid; 2 outer sepals narrowly deltoid, subacute; 3 inner sepals broadly ovate, acute; stamens 15, in 3 subequal verticils; filaments compressed at base, tapering to the narrowly elliptic subacute anthers; appendage 1.5-2 times length of anther, acicular, relatively stout; ovary and stylopodium ovoid, surmounted by a short glabrous columnar style c. j their length. Fruit unknown.
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