Large buttressed tree. Young twigs, leaf buds, outside of stipules and parts of petals exposed in bud ± persistently grey-brown puberulent; panicle, calyx, leaf nervation beneath and petiole fugaceously so (densely pubescent in young trees). Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, terete, slender, much branched. Leaf bud minute. Stipules to 8 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 5.5-12 by 1.8-4.8 cm, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, dull densely lepidote and drying coppery brown beneath; base broadly cuneate to obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, tapering; nerves 15-18 pairs, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, evident above, ascending at 50°-65°; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, ± unraised, +-obscure; midrib slender but prominent beneath, obscurely depressed above; petiole 12-20 mm long, slender, geniculate. Panicle to 12 cm long, slender, terminal or axillary, ± doubly branched; flowers secund; bracteoles fugaceous. Flower buds to 6 by 3 mm, fusiform. Sepals ovate, the outer 3 subacuminate, the inner 2 prominently subcaudate. Stamens 15, subequal, shorter than style at anthesis; filaments slender, tapering; anthers narrowly oblong; appendages slender, distinctly scarious, c. 3 x length of anther. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style slender, filiform, obscurely trifid. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long, slender, base of fruit obtuse; 3 longer calyx lobes to 7.5 by 1 cm, spatulate, obtuse, tapering to c. 5 mm broad above the c. 7 by 5 mm elliptic saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 4 by 0.3 cm, linear, similar at base. Nut to 8 by 5 mm, ovoid, apiculate.
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