Medium-sized, sometimes large, tree with reddish flaky bark. Young twigs and petioles fugaceous puberulent, calyx outside caducously so, panicles sparsely persistently so; petals densely cream pubescent outside. Twig c. 2 mm ø, dark brown, with a short rib following the leaf trace otherwise smooth, terete; internodes 1-2 cm long; stipule scars obscure. Leaf bud minute, ovoid; stipule fugaceous. Leaves 6.5-15 by 3.5-6.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, subcoriaceous; base cuneate, typically shortly decurrent; acumen to 1.5 cm long; nerves 13-18 pairs, arched, slender but prominent beneath, depressed above as also the midrib; occasionally with a few short secondary nerves; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, evident beneath, obscure above; petiole 7-20 mm long. Panicle to 5 cm long, terminal or axillary, ramiflorous, relatively short, singly branched; branchlets to 2.5 cm long, bearing to 8 flowers. Flower buds to 3 by 2 mm, ovoid. 2 outer sepals ovate, deltoid, acute; 3 inner broadly ovate, subacuminate. Corolla dark red. Stamens 15. Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical, truncate, with slight median constriction, the stylopodium the shorter and narrower; style short, stout. Fruit pedicel c. 1 mm long, short, stout, base of fruit shallowly depressed. 2 longer fruit calyx lobes to 11.5 by 2 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 4 mm broad above the to 8 by 8 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 17 by 12 mm, ovate-acuminate, appressed to nut and enclosing it except at apex. Nut to 2 by 1.3 cm, shortly apiculate.
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