Tree to 30 m tall, sometimes a shrub. New shoots rusty-appressed-tomentose, glabrescent. Bark minutely scaly, later finely fissured, brown or grey; blaze pinkish brown turning dark brown. Leaves with petiole 1-2.5 cm long; lamina elliptic, lanceolate, ovate or oblong, 4-18.5 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, acute or obtuse or emarginate, entire or serrate or lobed, thin, shining above, pale beneath; juvenile leaves pinnatisect. Conflorescence axillary; rachis 5-11 cm long, puberulous; bracts ovate, obtuse to acute, 4.5-7 mm long, red, striate, glabrous except fimbriate margins; pedicels to 0.5 mm long. Perianth 4.5-5.5 mm long, creamy white, glabrous. Hypogynous glands triangular-oblong to ovate, thick, 0.3-0.6 mm long. Gynoecium 4-5.5 mm long; ovary pubescent. Follicle boat-shaped, acuminate, 20-30 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, appressed-puberulous. Seeds oblong to lanceolate, 23-24 mm long; wing terminal, truncate.
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