Large buttressed tree. Twigs, petioles, bud, panicles, perianth outside and ovary densely ± persistently pale tawny pubescent, leaf nervation beneath sparsely so. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, much branched, terete, at first rugulose and ± ribbed, becoming smooth, dark brown dappled; stipule scars short, dark, horizontal. Buds to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid, obtuse. Stipules unknown. Leaves 4-7 by 2-3.5 cm, elliptic, coriaceous, ± distinctly but sparsely cream lepidote beneath; margin subrevolute; base cuneate; acumen short, broad; nerves 9-11 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath, obscure and narrowly depressed above as also the midrib; petiole 12-16 mm long. Panicles to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, rigid, ascending; singly or doubly branched, branchlets to 3 cm long. Flower buds to 6 by 4 mm, long, ovoid. Sepals broadly ovate, subequal, shortly subacuminate. Stamens c. 25; filaments long, lorate, somewhat tapering to the oblong anthers; appendages c. 3/4 length of anthers, slender, tapering, glabrous, becoming ± reflexed at anthesis; ovary small, ovoid, glabrous, surmounted by a slender filiform style c. twice its height. Fruit unknown.
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