Medium-sized tree. Innovations pale rufous scabrid tomentose, turning dark grey-brown and persisting on twig, buds, stipule, petiole and leaf beneath. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, terete, becoming verruculose; stipule scars short, horizontal, obscure. Bud to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid, obtuse. Stipule c. 5 by 2 mm, linear, not at first caducous. Leaves 8-17 by 2-5 cm, lanceolate, coriaceous, margin revolute; base cordate; acumen to 2 cm long, slender; nerves 12-16 pairs, prominent beneath, at 45°-55° except at base; tertiary nerves subscalariform; midrib depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 6-13 mm long, rather short. Flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long. Calyx glabrescent; lobes to 8 by 6 mm, subequal, ovate, acute, the apices becoming subpatent, thickly incrassate. Nut to 2.5 by 2.0 cm, broadly ellipsoid, obovoid, subacute, densely shortly evenly fulvous pubescent.
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