Small tree up to 17 m. Branchlets terete. Incipient bracts conspicuous, 7-15 mm long. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, 12-23 by 6-11 cm; base acute; apex acute to acuminate; nerves 6-11 pairs; petioles 1-2 cm. Thyrses and/or cymes up to 4.5 cm, simple or 2-3 dichotomously branched; peduncle 1-3 cm, rarely very short. Flowers white; bracteoles small, 1½-2 mm long, short-fimbriate. Calyx lobes suborbicular or reniform, 2-3 by 2-3.5 mm, concave, stiff, smooth inside, usually irregularly split, short-lacerate, venation visible but not elevated. Petals oblong, 3-3.5 by 1.25-1.5 mm, obtuse. Stamens 1.5-1.75 mm long; filaments dorso-basifixed, flat, gradually dilated towards the base, united at the lower half; anthers suborbicular, ¼ mm long, obtuse, sometimes obscurely apiculate. Pistil c. 1.5 mm long, gradually narrowed towards the apex; apex 4-lobed, or obtuse (in young flowers). Fruits ellipsoid, broad-obovoid, or ovoid-oblong, 15-17 by 8-11½ mm, furfuraceous, glabrescent, slightly rugose, acuminate at the apex.
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