Medium-sized tree with patchily cracked bark and thin buttresses. Young twigs, leaf bud, stipule and petiole ± caducous grey-brown puberulent. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, terete, much branched, straight, smooth; stipule scars short, obscure. Bud to 2 by 1 mm, ellipsoid, obtuse. Stipule to 3 mm long, linear, caducous. Leaves 3.5-6 by 1.5-3.5 cm, broadly ovate, coriaceous; base cuneate to obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, slender; nervation dryobalanoid, main nerves c. 10-13 pairs, slender, hardly raised, with shorter secondaries; tertiary nerves obscure, reticulate; midrib somewhat raised on both surfaces; petiole 6-7 mm long, slender. Panicle to 3 cm long, +-terete, ribbed, greyish tawny puberulent; singly branched, branchlets to 1 cm long, bearing to 5 flowers; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, short, linear, fugaceous. Flower bud to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid. Sepals ovate, pubescent on parts exposed in bud, 3 outer acute, 2 inner relatively broader, narrower at base, mucronate. Petals lanceolate, pubescent on parts exposed in bud; stamens 15, the inner 5 taller than the rest; filaments broad and compressed at base, tapering and filiform below the subglobose anthers; appendage to connective slender, slightly longer than anther. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style c. 1.5 times length of ovary, columnar. Fruit glabrous. Pedicel 1-2 mm long, short, slender. Calyx lobes sparsely setose in the basal half; 2 longer to 3.4 by 0.8 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 2 mm broad above the to 4 by 3 mm narrowly ovate somewhat thickened and saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 4 by 4 mm, ovate, acute, saccate. Nut to 15 by 3 mm; cylindrical, style remnant c. 1 mm long, short.
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