Medium-sized tree. Young parts greyish sericeous, caducous. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, terete, sometimes patchily chartaceous flaky; stipule scars short, horizontal. Bud c. 2 by 2 mm, conical, subacute. Leaf 19-25 by 9-12 cm, oblong-ovate, obtuse but shortly decurrent and subequal at base; acumen to 8 mm long, broad, short; nerves 12-14 pairs, prominent beneath, arched, at 50°-75°; tertiary nerves remotely subscalariform; midrib applanate or slightly elevated above, prominent beneath; petiole 22-30 mm long, stout, terete. Panicle to 10 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete or somewhat compressed, caducous grey-buff sericeous; singly or doubly branched; bracts and bracteoles unknown. Buds to 4 by 2 mm, small, fusiform. Calyx densely puberulent on parts exposed in bud; 3 outer lobes ovate, acute; 2 inner lobes somewhat smaller, narrower at base, shortly fimbriate. Petals cream, linear, obtuse, strongly contorted, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, in 2 unequal verticils, the inner 5 somewhat longer than the outer 10; filaments broad at base, tapering and filiform below the subglobose anthers; appendage to connective c. \\ times length of anther, sericeous in the apical Ovary narrowly ovoid, pubescent, tapering into the short glabrous style. Fruit calyx sparsely greyish sericeous towards the base; 3 longer lobes to 8 by 2.2 cm, spatulate, obtuse to subacute, c. 4 mm broad above the 6 by 5 mm thickened saccate prominently tuberculate base; 2 shorter lobes to 5.5 by 1.2 cm, otherwise as longer lobes. Nut to 10 by 8 mm, ovoid, acute, densely persistently greyish sericeous.
Home