Young twig, leaf bud, stipule, petiole and panicle sparsely shortly pale yellow-brown tomentose, caducous on twigs and petioles. Twig 1 mm ø apically, terete, smooth, glabrous, dotted with minute pale round lenticels; stipule scars short, slender. Bud to 3 by 1 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acute. Stipule to 3.5 mm long, narrowly hastate, acute, fugaceous. Leaves 6-9 by 3-4.5 cm, elliptic to ovate, glabrous; base broadly cuneate; acumen to 1.5 cm long, narrow to caudate; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender, raised beneath, curved, well spaced, at 50°-60°; tertiary nerves scalariform to subreticulate, widely spaced at c. 90° to nerves; midrib slender, prominent beneath, depressed above; petiole 1-1.8 cm long, geniculate, pale. Panicle to 14 cm long, terminal or axillary, singly branched, straight, pendent; bracts and bracteoles unknown. Flower bud to 4.5 by 3 mm, ellipsoid, obtuse. Calyx densely shortly grey-brown tomentose outside, glabrous within; lobes narrowly deltoid, subequal, subacute, not adpressed to corolla in bud. Petals elliptic, obtuse, shortly tomentose on parts exposed in bud, cream. Inner 5 stamens slightly longer than the others, reaching 3/4 length of style; filaments broad at base, tapering; anther narrowly oblong; appendage to connective short, slightly protruding above anther; ovary subglobose, densely tomentose; style c. 3 times length of ovary, filiform, shortly pubescent in the basal 1/3, otherwise glabrous. Fruit calyx glabrescent, puberulent at base, becoming pushed apart by the ripening nut; 3 longer lobes to 8.5 by 1.7 cm, broadly spatulate, obtuse, to 3 mm broad above the to 7 mm long unexpanded slightly thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 7.5 cm long, often only slightly smaller than longer lobes, subequal. Nut to 1.5 by 1.3 cm, ellipsoid, obtuse, verrucose with pale lenticels, buff tomentose; style remnant to 1 mm long, short.
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