Medium-sized tree. Young twigs, stipules and panicles caducous buff puberulent; pedicel, ovary and parts of petals exposed in bud persistently so; parts otherwise glabrous. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, much branched, pale. Buds to 3 by 2 mm ø, ovoid, acute; stipule to 7 by 2 mm, lanceolate, caducous. Leaves 11-25 by 3-10 cm, oblong to obovate, thinly chartaceous and wrinkling on drying; base broadly cuneate or obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, prominent; nerves 16-20 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above, arched, with short slender secondaries; tertiary nerves sinuately subscalariform, slender and elevated on both surfaces; midrib stout, terete and prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above; petiole 10-22 mm long, slender. Panicle to 5 cm long, to 3-axillary, stout. Flower buds to 6 by 2 mm, fusiform; sepals subequal, lanceolate, subacuminate; anthers small, broadly oblong, tapering to the equally long prominent stout appendages; style columnar, somewhat longer than ovary, slightly tapering, rimmed beneath the conical stigma; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 6 mm long, very slender. Fruit sepals to 6 by 1.5 cm, subequal, lanceolate, subacute, cordate at base, 5-7-nerved, ascending and hiding the to 13 by 11 mm ellipsoid nut.
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