Small tree. Branchlets initially densely set with brownish, stiff hairs, glabrescent, lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-conical, c. 3 by 2 mm, scales ovate, glabrous. Stipules linear-acute, densely pubescent outside, 5-10 by 1 mm. Leaves thin-coriaceous, obovate or elliptic-ovate, 1½-5 by 0.7-2½ cm, base attenuate-acute, top bluntly acute; margin remotely serrulate in the apical half; densely pubescent on both surfaces, late glabrescent; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, flattened or impressed above; nerves 5-8 pairs, parallel, at an angle of 50-60°, arcuating towards the margin; reticulation obscure on both surfaces; petiole 3-6 mm, densely pubescent, glabrescent, adaxially flat. Young infructescence 1-2 cm, rachis densely tomentose, glabrescent, lenticellate, with 1-2 solitary young fruits. Young cupule obovoid or obconical, c. ½ cm through, densely tomentose; styles 1-2 mm. Ripe cupule cup-shaped, obconical, covering ¼-⅓ part of the fruit; 1 cm high, 1-1½ cm ø; lamellae 7-8, thin, denticulate, densely tomentose. Fruit ovoid or ovoid-cylindrical, 2-2½ by 1-1½ cm, glabrous, glossy, top acute, base convex.
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