Small to medium-sized, occasionally large tree. Young twig, petiole, stipule outside and bud shortly grey tomentose, caducous on twig and petiole. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, terete, smooth, much branched. Bud 1-2 by 1.5-2 mm, small, ovoid, obtuse or acute. Stipule to 6 by 2 mm, narrowly lanceolate, acute, fugaceous. Leaves 4.5-7.5 by 2-3.5 cm, small, ovate-lanceolate; base cuneate, equal or subequal, with or without paired domatia; acumen to 1.5 cm long, narrow; nerves 8-10 pairs, very slender and barely elevated beneath, distant, at 50°-60°; tertiary nerves scalariform to reticulate; petiole 7-10 mm long, slender. Panicle to 16 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, lax, shortly sparsely or densely evenly persistently pale cream-buff pubescent; regularly doubly, rarely trebly, branched, branchlets to 1 cm long, zigzag, bearing to 9 distichous flowers; bracteoles minute, fugaceous. Flower bud to 2.5 mm long, small, lanceolate. Calyx shortly cream pubescent outside, glabrous within; lobes ovate, acute, the inner 2 slightly thinner, more constricted at the base. Petals pale yellow, linear, pubescent on parts exposed in bud, the basal 1/3 imbricate forming a cup, twisted and spreading distally. Stamens (10-)15, in (1-)3 slightly unequal verticils; filaments short, broad at base, tapering, filiform distally; anther subglobose; appendage to connective 1.5-2 times length of anther, reaching base of style, shortly ciliate distally. Ovary ovoid, tapering, shortly pubescent; stylopodium pubescent, tapering; style short, glabrous; the 2 latter as long as ovary. Fruit calyx puberulent to glabrous but for fimbriate margin; lobes to 5 by 4 mm, equal, deltoid, thickened, saccate, subacute. Nut to 2 by 1.2 cm, obovoid, finely striated longitudinally, glabrous and lustrous or shortly grey pubescent; style remnant mucronate.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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