Medium-sized tree. Panicles and nut densely greyish puberulent, fruit calyx sparsely so, other known parts glabrous. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, smooth, terete. Buds minute; stipules not seen. Leaves 5-10 by 1.8-4.7 cm, ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, lustrous on both surfaces; margin narrowly subrevolute; base broadly cuneate, +-unequal; apex to 1.3 cm caudate; nerves 7-8 pairs, very slender, slightly elevated beneath, +-applanate above, at 50°-55°; tertiary nerves obscure, scalariform; midrib slender, evident and slightly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 7-12 mm long, rather short, very slender. Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or subterminal axillary, slender, shortly branched. Flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel c. 1 mm long, slender; 3 longer calyx lobes to 5 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 4 mm broad above the to 8 by 7 mm elliptic saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 25 by 4 mm, narrowly spatulate, acute, similar at base; nut to 19 by 7 mm including the prominent slender apiculus, ovoid.
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