Large tree. Leaf bud, twigs, petioles, midrib below, stipules, panicles, bracteoles, calyx and parts of petals exposed in bud densely tawny puberulent, caducous except on bud, twig apices, petiole, panicle and petals; ovary and nut densely pale buff puberulent. Leaf bud to 4 by 2 mm, ovoid, subacute. Stipules short, acicular, fugaceous. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, smooth, terete. Leaves 8-17 by 2.8-6.5 cm; elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, lustrous beneath, dull above; base cuneate; margin narrowly revolute; acumen to 1 cm long, tapering; nerves 14-16 pairs, very slender, slightly elevated on both surfaces as also the subreticulate tertiary nerves, ascending at c. 50°; midrib prominent beneath, evident and elevated above; petiole 1.2-2.2 cm long, c. 2 mm ø. Panicle to 16 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, singly branched; branchlets to 1 cm long, short, bearing c. 4 secund flowers. Flower bud to 6 by 3 mm, fusiform; sepals ovate, subequal, the 2 inner somewhat the narrower; stamens 15, in 3 subequal verticils; filaments compressed, broad at base, tapering and filiform beneath the subglobose anthers; appendages slender, scabrous in the distal 1/2, c. 1.5 times length of anthers; ovary ovoid, with prominent narrow stylopodium, both densely puberulent; style short, obscurely trifid, glabrous. Fruit subsessile; 3 longer calyx lobes to 9 by 1.8 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 7 mm broad above the to 8 by 10 mm ovate saccate thickened tuberculate base; 2 shorter lobes to 6.5 by 0.7 cm, lorate, similar at base. Nut to 3 by 1.3 cm, obovoid, apiculate.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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