Trees ca. 15 m tall, with dark brown smooth bark, later becoming flaky, with aromatic white resin. Branchlets initially densely grayish yellow tomentose, soon sparsely so. Petiole 6-8 mm, gray tomentose; leaf blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-12 × 3-6 cm, leathery, basal veins 5 or 6, lateral veins 3-5 pairs slightly raised abaxially, base oblique or cordate, sometimes rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate. Panicles axillary or terminal, few flowered, 6-11 cm, slender, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous. Calyx segments imbricate, suborbicular, glabrous. Petals reddish, obovate-elliptic, ca. 5 mm, outside tomentose, ciliate at margin. Stamens (10-)15; anthers ellipsoid; connective appendages filiform. Ovary and stylopodium pyriform, with median constriction, glabrous; style short. Fruit ovoid; pericarp thin, glabrous; calyx lobes subequal, short, to 8 × 7 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun.
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