Small to medium-sized, often crooked tree. Petiole, stipule, ovary and parts of petals exposed in bud persistently buff puberulent, panicle and calyx outside caducously so. Leaf bud to 3 by 2 mm, ovoid, subacute. Stipule to 1 cm long, acicular, fugaceous. Twig c. 3 mm ø, pale red-brown, ± prominently ribbed and conspicuously papery flaky. Leaves 8.5-19 by 3.5-7 cm, dark violet when opening, elliptic to lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, coriaceous; base broadly cuneate to obtuse; apex tapering into an up to 1 cm long short broad acumen; nerves 7-10 pairs, ± ascending, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, obscure above; petiole 1-1.5 cm long, c. 3 mm ø, relatively short and stout. Panicle to 7 cm long, short, axillary to ramiflorous or occasionally terminal, with a few short branchlets bearing up to 4 secund flowers. Flower buds to 15 by 4 mm, large, lanceolate. Sepals broadly ovate, subequal; outer 3 acute, inner 2 shortly acuminate. Corolla pale yellow; stamens 10, equal; filaments long, lorate, slender, tapering; anthers subglobose, becoming reflexed; appendages as long as anthers, relatively short. Ovary narrowly ovoid, tapering into the prominent glabrous style. Fruit sessile; sepals to 15 by 10 mm, subequal, ovate, acute, united at the thickened tuberculate base. Nut to 6.5 by 2 cm, very large, fusiform to narrowly obovoid, apiculate.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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