Tall flaky-barked and buttressed tree. Young twigs and petioles fugaceous puberulent, vegetative parts otherwise glabrous. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, terete, becoming striated. Bud to 2 by 1 mm, conical. Stipule to 2 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 6.5-14 by 2-7 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, frequently undulate; base narrowly or broadly cuneate; acumen to 2.5 cm long, slender, tapering; nerves 6-9 pairs, scalariform, depressed above, slender but prominent beneath, set obliquely at 45°-65°, frequently with prominent, pustular domatia; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, at 90° to the midrib; midrib slightly raised to slightly depressed above, ± prominent beneath; petiole 6-12 mm long, slender. Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, densely shortly evenly persistently pale cream-buff pubescent; singly branched, the branchlets bearing to 7 cream flowers; bracteoles to 1 mm, short, deltoid, fugaceous. Flower bud to 2 by 1 mm, ellipsoid. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, subequal, glabrous or pubescent. Petals lanceolate, puberulent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments compressed at base, tapering filiform below the ellipsoid anthers; appendage to connective slender, c. 3 times length of anther, reaching almost to style apex. Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical, truncate, sometimes constricted medially, glabrous but for the papillose apical platform; style shortly columnar, glabrous. Fruit calyx at first pale buff puberulent, caducous except at base. Pedicel to 2 mm long. 2 longer calyx lobes to 9.5 by 2.2 mm, broadly lorate, obtuse, c. 4 mm wide above the 8 by 6 mm elliptic thickened saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 4 by 6 mm, broadly ovate, subacute, saccate. Nut to 6 by 5 mm, subglobose, shortly apiculate.
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