Meliosma occidentalis Cuatrec.

Tree 6-20 m tall; branchlets appressed puberulous when young, glabrescent, terete. Leaves elliptic to narrowly obovate, 6-26 cm long, 2.5-10.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate, cuneate to obtuse at the base, chartaceous, entire or with a few remote teeth towards the apex, drying dark above, brownish below, the midvein slightly impressed above, raised below, the secondary veins plane above and prominent below, tertiary venation prominulous below; puberulous on mid-vein above, below puberulous along the main veins and sometimes sparsely over the surface; petiole more or less puberulous, 1-3.5 cm long. Inflorescence arising from the branchlets below the leaves, paniculate, puberulous, 8-18 cm long, the flowers on short, ca. 1 mm long, pedicels or subsessile, mostly borne singly.