Medium-sized tree. Apices of twigs, buds and stipules puberulent, other vegetative parts glabrous. Twig 1-2 mm ø apically, terete, smooth, pale grey-brown; stipule scars short, horizontal, obscure. Bud to 2 by 2 mm, ovoid, subacute. Stipule to 5 by 2 mm, lanceolate, acute. Leaves 5-11 by 3-6.5 cm, broadly elliptic, thickly coriaceous; base broadly cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long; nerves 5-7 pairs, comparatively stout and prominent beneath, arched, at 45°-65°; tertiary nerves subscalariform; midrib applanate to slightly depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 6-10 mm long, stout. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, compressed or terete, lax, buff puberulent or glabrous; singly branched, branchlets bearing to 5 ± distichous flowers. Buds to 7 by 2 mm, fusiform. Sepals broadly ovate, fimbriate but otherwise glabrous; outer 3 acute, inner 2 relatively broader, thinner at margin. Petals lime-yellow, lanceolate, densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud, imbricate at base after opening forming a cup, spreading and contorted apically. Stamens 16-17 in 3 unequal verticils; filaments compressed as base, tapering and filiform below the broadly ellipsoid anthers; appendage to connective slender, c. 1.5 times length of anther, pubescent in the distal 1/2. Ovary ovoid, densely pubescent; style columnar, tapering, 2-3 times as long as ovary, pubescent in the basal 1/2. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long, stout. Calyx glabrous; lobes to 1.7 by 1 cm, subequal, narrowly ovate, acute, incrassate, saccate and tuberculate at base. Nut to 2.5 by 1.5 cm, obovoid, acute, densely shortly persistently buff pubescent.
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