Canopy tree to 25 m tall. New shoots appressed-hirsute, glabrescent. Bark with close lenticels, pale grey-brown; outer blaze with anastomosing red, pink and orange striations; inner blaze paler. Leaves with glabrous petiole, 5-12 mm long; lamina elliptic, obtuse to acute, 5-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, entire, leathery, shining above. Flowers in a terminal or axillary panicle of spike-like branches; rachis rusty-villous; bracts linear, 2-3 mm long, villous; pedicels 2-4 mm long, creamy villous. Perianth 5-6 mm long, cream, villous. Hypogynous glands cordate, shortly united, 0.5 mm long. Gynoecium 4.2-4.5 mm long; ovary and base of style silky, with a few scattered hairs above. Follicle obliquely obovoid, beaked, 28-44 mm long, very thick, opening ±flat. Seeds elliptic to almost orbicular, 15-20 mm long, 10-15 mm wide, with marginal wing 2-4 mm wide.
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