Small to medium-sized tree. Leaf bud, twig and petiole densely +-unevenly shortly golden-brown pubescent, nervation beneath sparsely so. Twig c. 2 mm ø, terete, becoming pale red-brown, slightly rough; stipule scars short, pale, cuneate, horizontal. Bud to 2 by 1 mm, ovoid, acute. Stipule unknown. Leaves 5-13 by 1.7-4.5 cm, elliptic, coriaceous; base cuneate; acumen to 12 mm long, slender or caudate; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, arched, at 45°-55°; tertiary nerves subreticulate; midrib depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 5-8 mm long, slender. Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, densely ± unevenly shortly golden-brown pubescent; singly branched, branchlets bearing to 5 distichous flowers. Bud to 3 by 2 mm, small. Calyx lobes ovate, obtuse, pubescent on parts exposed in bud, the outer 3 somewhat longer than the inner 2. Petals pale yellow, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments compressed at base, tapering medially and filiform below the oblong anthers; appendage to connective slightly longer than anther, filiform, villous in the distal 1/2. Ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous near the apex, slender; style glabrous. Fruit pedicel c. 1 mm long, c. 2 mm ø, short. Calyx densely evenly persistently yel-low-brown pubescent; lobes to 7 by 4 mm, subequal, short, ovate, acute. Nut to 2.5 by 1.7 cm, obovoid to ellipsoid, acute, densely evenly shortly buff pubescent.
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