Tree to 18 m. Twigs glabrous. Leaves acuminate with cuneate, attenuate base and entire to obscurely undulate-crenate margin, glabrous, (narrowly) elliptic, 7-11 by 2-4½ cm; nerves 5-8 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein 2-5 mm from the margin; petiole 7-10 mm. Flowers in a panicle of racemes, axis villous. Bracts and bracteoles glabrous, soon caducous, 2½-3 and c. 2½ mm long respectively. Pedicel pubescent, to 5 mm long. Calyx glabrous, 2½-3 mm, the lobes 1-2 mm long, becoming longer by tearing apart. Corolla c. 5 mm. Stamens more than 100. Disk 5-glandular, with the broadly conical style base soft hairy. Ovary glabrous, c. 1 mm high; style glabrous, c. 5 mm. Fruit not known.
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