Small to medium-sized tree. Panicles caducous greyish puberulent; bracts persistently so, parts of petals exposed in bud and ovary persistently densely so. Twig 1-2 mm ø apically, terete, pale greyish brown, rugulose. Buds and stipules not seen. Leaves 9-24 by 4-11 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, thinly coriaceous drying pale greyish brown; margin undulate, somewhat revolute; base broadly cuneate to obtuse; apex shortly broadly acuminate; nerves 8-9(-11) pairs, arched, at 55°-60°, very slender but distinctly elevated beneath, slightly so above, as also the laxly reticulate tertiary nerves; midrib prominent on both surfaces; petioles 11-20 mm long, drying cream-brown at the ends, otherwise blackish. Panicles to 18 cm long, terminal or to 3-axillary or ramiflorous, slender, many flowered; doubly branched, branchlets to 2 cm long; bracts to 2 mm long, elliptic, fugaceous. Flower buds to 5 by 2 mm. Sepals ovate-deltoid, incrassate, subacute, glabrous, subequal. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments dilated at base, tapering and filiform distally; appendages slender, villous distally, c. 1.5 times as long as the narrowly ellipsoid anthers. Ovary ovoid, tapering into the somewhat shorter stout columnar style; style villous in the basal 1/2. Fruit pedicel to 2 by 2 mm; sepals to 6 by 5 mm, equal, ovate, subacuminate, thickened; nut to 25 by 8 mm, fusiform-lanceolate.
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