Medium-sized to large, dark flaky-barked, buttressed tree with prominent opaque white resin exudates on bole. Young twig, leaf bud, stipule, petiole, leaf undersurface, midrib above and panicle +-sparsely pale grey-brown pubescent, leaf sometimes glabrescent. Twig to 1 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, smooth. Bud to 2 mm long, ovoid. Stipule to 3 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 5.5-10 by 3.5-5 cm, ovate, thin, base ± broadly cuneate; acumen to 1.2 cm long, caudate; nerves 10-12 pairs, slender, prominent beneath, slightly curved, at 50°-60°, with or without tomentose axillary domatia; tertiary nerves very slender, scalariform, indistinct, oblique to nerves; midrib slender, prominent beneath, +-applanate above; petiole 0.5-1 cm long. Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, terete; singly or doubly branched, branchlets bearing to 8 secund flowers; bracteoles to 1 mm long, small, deltoid, buff pubescent. Flower buds very small, ellipsoid-ovoid. Calyx densely pubescent on both surfaces; 2 outer lobes deltoid, subacute, 3 inner lobes suborbicular, obtuse. Petals oblong-lanceolate, densely tomentose on parts exposed in bud, cream. Stamens 10; filaments slender, tapering; anthers oblong; appendage as long as anther, slender. Ovary and stylopodium short, broadly cylindrical, truncate, broader towards base, puberulent at apex; style 2/3 length of ovary and stylopodium, filiform, glabrous. Fruit calyx glabrescent; 2 longer lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, oblong-spatulate, obtuse, tapering to 4 mm broad above the 5 by 4 mm somewhat saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 7 by 4 mm, obtuse. Nut to 7 by 4 mm, ovoid, persistently subtruncate at the short style remnant, sparsely pubescent.
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