Medium-sized fissure-barked small-buttressed tree, at first with stilt roots. Twigs, petioles and panicles silvery lepidote, domatia and petioles outside cream pubescent, parts otherwise glabrous. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, dark brown, ± prominently ribbed; stipule scars obscure. Leaf buds minute, ovate, stipules minute, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 4-10 by 1.7-4 cm, ovate; lanceolate, falcate, relatively small; base cuneate, shortly decurrent, subequal; acumen to 2 cm long, slender, caudate; nervation dryobalanoid, main nerves c. 10 pairs with many shorter unequal secondaries, arched, ± distinctly elevated beneath, ± depressed or obscure above, the main nerves with ± prominent axillary tomentose domatia; midrib elevated on both surfaces; petiole 5-11 mm long, slender. Panicle to 6 cm long, terminal or axillary, singly branched; branchlets to 16 mm long, bearing to 6 secund pale yellow flowers. Flower bud to 2 by 1 mm, ovoid. Sepals ovate, acute, the outer 2 narrower, longer than inner 3. Stamens 15, filaments broadly compressed at base, tapering, appendage aristate, c. 3 x length of subglobose anthers. Ovary ovoid, tapering into the equally long filiform style. Fruit pedicel c. 2 mm long, slender; base of fruit frequently impressed. 2 longer calyx lobes to 5.5 by 1.2 cm, spatulate, narrowly obtuse, c. 5 mm broad above the c. 1 mm broad subauriculate centrally saccate thickened base; 3 shorter lobes to 20 by 7 mm, similarly subauriculate, completely enclosing the nut. Nut to 10 by 7 mm, ovoid, acute.
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