Medium-sized, unbuttressed tree with flaky bark. Twigs, petioles, panicles and calyx densely pale tawny puberulent, midrib beneath sparsely so; parts of petals exposed in bud densely pubescent. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, terete, ± rugose, pale brown, becoming smooth. Leaves 6-17 by 3-6 cm, oblong, subsericeous; base subcordate, ± equal, margin narrowly revolute; acumen to 5 mm long, stout; nerves 16-18 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, at 50°-65°; tertiary nerves slender, barely elevated, scalariform; midrib slender but prominent beneath, elevated above; petiole 9-14 mm long. Panicles to 5(-8) cm long, 3-axillary to ramiflorous or sometimes terminal, short, slender; 1-2 branched, the branchlets bearing to 6 secund flowers. Flower buds to 5 by 2 mm, ellipsoid. Sepals unequal, the outer 2 lanceolate, inner 3 ovate, erose. Stamens 15; filaments dilated at base, tapering medially; anthers subglobose; appendage 2.5-3 times length of anthers, aristate. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly fusiform, tapering into a shorter style. Fruit unknown.
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