Medium-sized tree. Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, outside of stipule, midrib on both surfaces and nervation beneath +-persistently densely tawny-brown scabrid pubescent. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, much branched, terete, becoming smooth, glabrous; stipule scars short, horizontal, obscure. Bud 2.5-5 by 1.5-3 mm, ovoid, compressed, obtuse. Stipule to 6 by 3 mm, oblong, obtuse, fugaceous. Leaves 5-9 by 3-5 cm, small, obovate or elliptic, coriaceous; base broadly cuneate, rarely obtuse; apex retuse, obtuse or with to 5 mm long acumen; nerves 8-11 pairs, slightly curved, at c. 25°-40°, rarely with domatia; tertiary nerves slender, scalariform, diagonal to nerves; midrib narrow and depressed above, terete and prominent beneath; petiole 9-11 mm long, short, rugose. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, short, terete or slightly compressed; singly, rarely doubly, branched, branchlets short, rather irregular, bearing to 7 ± distichous flowers; bracteoles to 3.5 by 2.5 mm, ovate, subacute, shortly buff pubescent outside, glabrescent within. Flower bud to 8 by 3.5 mm, lanceolate, obtuse. Calyx densely pale buff pubescent outside, glabrous within; 3 outer lobes deltoid to ovate, subacute; 2 inner lobes smaller, broadly ovate, subacuminate. Petals cream, pink at base, lanceolate, acute, densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, in 3 distinct verticils; filaments tapering gradually; anther subglobose; appendages to connective slightly longer than anther, the longest reaching to the base of the style, becoming reflexed. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly conical, densely pubescent except at the base; style almost half length of ovary and stylopodium, glabrous. Fruit calyx glabrescent; 3 longer lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, c. 3 mm wide above the to 7 by 5 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 3 by 0.3 cm, linear, similar at base. Nut to 10 by 8 mm, ovoid, shortly densely buff pubescent, shortly apiculate.
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