Large tree. Parts of petals exposed in bud densely pubescent, young parts ± caducously tawny puberulent, more persistent in young trees. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, terete, smooth. Leaf buds small, ovoid. Stipules caducous, not seen. Leaves (3.5-)6.5-9(-14) by (1.5-)4-5(-11.5) cm, +-elliptic, thinly coriaceous, occasionally cream lepidote beneath; margin narrowly subrevolute; base cuneate to obscure (young trees); apex shortly broadly acuminate to retuse; nerves 11-13 pairs, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, +-applanate above, at 55°-80°; tertiary nerves remotely scalariform, hardly elevated beneath, +-obscure; midrib prominent beneath, obscurely depressed above; petiole 1-2 cm long, slender, geniculate. Panicle to 14 cm long, slender, lax, terminal or axillary; singly branched, branchlets to 8 cm long, with to 8 secund flowers; bracteoles to 7 by 2 mm, lanceolate, acute, caducous. Flower bud to 10 by 3 mm, fusiform; sepals ovate, the outer 3 subacute, the inner 2 acuminate; stamens 21-25, becoming +-shorter than style at anthesis; anthers linear-oblong, slender; appendages aristate, scabrous distally, +-twice length of anthers; ovary ovoid, puberulent; style columnar, slender, ± twice length of ovary, scarious in the basal 1/2, with ± deeply trifid stigma. Fruit pedicel short, stout, broadening into fruit. 3 longer calyx lobes to 13 by 2 cm, lorate, obtuse, c. 6 mm wide above the to 15 by 12 mm elliptic saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 7.5 by 0.5 cm, linear-lorate, acute, similarly saccate at base; nut to 15 by 14 mm, ovoid, tapering to a long slender filiform style remnant.
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