Medium-sized, buttressed tree with flaky bark. Leaf buds, twigs, petioles and panicles +-persistently somewhat scabrid buff pubescent, parts of petals exposed in bud evenly so; calyx and leaf nervation below caducously so, glabrescent. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, stout, rugose, becoming ribbed; stipule scars distinct, short, ± horizontal. Bud small, ovoid; stipules unknown, caducous. Leaves 10-22 by 3.5-8 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, coriaceous; margin revolute (less so in young trees); base obtuse to subcordate; acumen to 8 mm long, short, broad; nerves 12-16 pairs, prominent beneath, evident and elevated above; petiole 11-14 mm long, c. 2 mm ø, rather stout. Panicle to 6 cm long, axillary to ramiflorous, slender, to 2-axillary; singly branched, branchlets to 1.5 cm long, bearing up to 6 flowers. Flower buds to 4 by 2 mm, lanceolate; 2 outer sepals broadly lanceolate-acuminate, 3 inner suborbicular, obtuse, fimbriate. Stamens 15, in 3 subequal verticils; filaments broad and compressed at base, tapering and filiform beneath the subglobose anthers; appendages 2.5-3 times length of anther, slender. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly pyriform, slightly constricted medially; stylopodium punctate distally, surmounted by a short columnar style. Fruit pedicel to 3 mm long, stout. 2 longer calyx lobes to 7.5 by 1.5 cm, obtuse, c. 2 mm wide above the to 8 by 4 mm narrowly ovate prominently saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 8 by 6 mm, ovate, mucronate or obtuse, similarly saccate; nut to 15 by 7 mm, narrowly ovoid, tapering, prominently slender-apiculate.
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