Vast, prominently buttressed tree. Twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule, petiole and nerves beneath densely shortly evenly pink-brown pubescent. Twig c. 2.5 by 1 mm ø apically, compressed and ridged at first, becoming terete, much branched; stipule scars c. 1.5 mm long, pale, linear, horizontal. Leaf bud to 4 by 3 mm, ovoid, compressed, slightly asymmetrical, subacute. Stipule to 12 by 5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, fugaceous. Leaves 7-12 by 4-7 cm, oblong, thinly coriaceous, silver to cream lepidote beneath; base broadly cuneate; acumen 5-10 mm long, broad; nerves 16-24 pairs, dense, straight, at 50°-60°; midrib slender, prominent beneath, depressed above; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, slender, ± obscure; petioles 1-1.5 cm long, slender. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, somewhat compressed and ribbed; regularly singly branched, branchlets to 2 cm long, bearing to 8 close secund flowers; bracteoles to 5 mm long, lanceolate, acute, caducous. Flower bud to 7 by 2 mm, lanceolate. Calyx shortly pubescent outside, glabrous within; 3 outer lobes deltoid-ovate, acute; 2 inner lobes smaller, ovate, acuminate, thinner. Petals cream, linear, shortly tomentose outside, glabrous within, hardly contorted. Stamens c. 30, subequal; filaments compressed and broad at base, tapering; anthers oblong, the outer sacs larger than the inner, glabrous; appendage to connective short, setose. Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical to conical, tomentose; style short, glabrous. Fruit calyx puberulent; 3 longer lobes to 6 by 1.2 cm, spatulate, acute or obtuse, tapering to a c. 8 by 8 mm elliptic saccate thinly incrassate base; 2 shorter lobes to 30 by 4 mm linear, acute, similar at base. Nut to 12 by 7 mm, ovoid, shortly pubescent; style remnant short.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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