Large tree. Leaf above evenly caducous cream-buff pubescent, other vegetative parts densely shortly persistently pink-brown scabrid tomentose. Twig c. 2 mm ø at first, terete, ribbed, becoming red-brown verruculose; stipule scars short, ascending. Bud to 7 by 7 mm, broadly ovoid. Stipule to 10 by 8 mm, ovate, subacute, saccate, caducous. Leaves 7-15 by 3-6 cm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate; base obtuse; acumen to 1.5 cm long, slender; nerves 19-25 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, at 70°-80° near the base, 50° near the apex; tertiary nerves slender, densely scalariform; midrib depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 9-17 mm long. Panicle imperfectly known, at least 6 cm long, singly branched, densely persistently pink-brown scabrid tomentose. Fruit calyx sparsely puberulent; 3 longer lobes to 11 by 2.5 cm, lorate-spatulate, obtuse, tapering only slightly above the prominently sagittate-auriculate base, base in all to 18 mm broad, with to 6 by 4 mm elliptic thickened saccate central disc; 2 shorter lobes to 2 cm long, c. 3 mm wide, linear, acute, not auriculate at base. Nut 15 by 8 mm, ellipsoid, shortly apiculate, puberulent towards the apex.
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