Medium-sized, fissure-barked tree with low buttresses and flying buttresses. Glabrous but for petals and stylopodium. Twig to 1.5 mm ø apically, slender, terete, smooth. Bud to 2 mm long. Stipule to 8 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 5-8 by 3-5.5 cm, broadly elliptic to obovate, coriaceous, base cuneate; acumen to 5 mm long, short, broad; margin subrevolute; nerves c. 1 pairs, strongly curved, dryobalanoid, at 60°-70° with secondaries running almost to margin; tertiary nerves reticulate, indistinct; midrib broad, rounded, slightly raised on both surfaces; petiole c. 1 cm long, short. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary to ramiflorous, to 2-axillary, slender, rigid, strongly ascending, terete or +-compressed, glabrous; regularly singly branched, branchlets to 2.5 cm long, straight, bearing to 7 secund flowers; bracteoles to 1 mm long, narrowly deltoid, glabrous, fugaceous. Flower bud to 2.5 mm long, ellipsoid, on to 2.5 mm long pedicel. Calyx glabrous but for the fimbriate margin; outer lobes ovate-acuminate, inner lobes shorter, thinner, broadly ovate-mucronate. Petals narrowly lanceolate, acute, fimbriate, shortly pubescent on parts exposed in bud, lemon yellow. Stamens 10, subequal, in a single row; filaments slender, tapering from the base; anthers broadly oblong, subequal; appendage to connective about twice length of anther. Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical, glabrous but for the glandular papillose apex, subtruncate; style short, abrupt, glabrous. Fruit pedicel to 3 mm long, slender. Calyx glabrous; 2 longer lobes to 3.5 by 0.7 cm, spatulate, obtuse, to 2 mm broad at the narrow saccate unexpanded base; 3 shorter lobes to 8 by 2 mm, similar at base. Nut to 11 by 5 mm, narrowly ovoid, glabrous; style remnant short, acute.
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