Large tree. Young twigs, buds, petioles, panicles, bracts outside, calyx, parts of corolla exposed in bud and ovary densely evenly ± persistently buff pubescent; nerves beneath sparsely ± caducously so. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, +-ribbed, becoming smooth, blackish, terete: stipule scars short, pale, horizontal. Bud to 4 by 2 mm, ovoid-apiculate; stipules to 5 by 3 mm, narrowly ovate, acute. Leaves 6-14 by 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, thinly coriaceous, +-distinctly persistently plicate, dull and ± silvery stellate beneath; base broadly cuneate to occasionally cordate, subequal; acumen to 1 cm long; nerves 9-12 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, rather straight, dense; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, very slender but distinct beneath; midrib prominent beneath, shallowly furrowed to elevated above; petiole 10-20 mm long, hardly geniculate. Panicle to 12 cm long, slender, terminal or axillary, singly branched, the branchlets bearing to 6 ± secund flowers; bracts to 4 by 3 mm, elliptic. Flower bud to 7 by 4 mm, lanceolate; sepals narrowly deltoid; stamens shorter than style; filaments broad, compressed, tapering, short; anthers lorate-oblong; appendages acicular, prominent and longer than anthers; ovary small, ovoid, surmounted by a distinct tapering somewhat longer stylopodium; style twice as long as ovary and stylopodium, filiform, somewhat expanding distally. Fruit pedicel to 3 mm long, broadening into receptacle; sepals aliform, unequal; 3 longer lobes to 8 by 1.7 cm, spatulate, obtuse; 2 shorter lobes to 7.5 by 0.8 cm, narrow; nut to 2.5 cm ø, subglobose or ovoid, apiculate, densely verruculose.
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