Medium-sized fissure-barked tree with small ± stilted buttresses. Twigs, petioles, midrib above and panicle densely persistently tawny puberulent, petals outside cream pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, much branched, terete, becoming dark brown; internodes 5-12 mm long, short; stipule scars obscure. Leaf bud minute; stipules fugaceous. Leaves 2.5-6 by 1.3-2.8 cm, small, lanceolate, coriaceous; base broadly abruptly cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, caudate; nervation dryobalanoid, main nerves c. 12 pairs with +-shorter secondaries, hardly evident beneath, obscure above; midrib sharply prominent beneath, obscure and depressed above; petiole 4-6 mm long, c. 1 mm ø, slender. Panicles to 3 cm long, axillary or sometimes terminal, short, singly branched; branches to 8 mm long, bearing to 4 secund flowers. Flower buds to 3 by 1.5 mm, ellipsoid, small. Sepals ovate, acute, the outer 2 somewhat the longer and narrower. Petals cream. Stamens 15; filaments slender, tapering, compressed; appendages slender, somewhat papillose, c. 2 times length of the broadly oblong anthers. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, crowned by a somewhat longer columnar style. Fruit pedicel to 1.5 mm long, very slender. 2 longer calyx lobes to 30 by 6 mm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 1 mm broad above the to 3 by 1.5 mm narrowly elliptic saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 3 by 2 mm, ovate, acuminate. Nut to 5 by 4 mm, ovoid, very shortly apiculate.
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