Young parts (except stipule within) evenly pale pink-brown pubescent, caducous except on leaf bud and stipule outside. Twig c. 3 by 1 mm ø, compressed, smooth; stipule scars c. 2 mm long at first, pale, horizontal, prominent. Bud c. 3 by 3 mm, ovoid, acute, compressed. Leaves 11-19 by 5-8.5 cm, ovate-elliptic, coriaceous; base obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long; nerves 10-15 pairs, slender, only slightly raised beneath, less so above, arched, at c. 50°, with short indistinct secondary nerves; tertiary nerves scalariform; midrib prominent beneath, applanate or raised above; petiole 15-23 mm long. Panicle to 7 cm long, somewhat compressed, sparsely pale pink-brown pubescent, irregularly singly or doubly branched. Flower bud to 9 by 4 mm, lanceolate; calyx densely pale fulvous pubescent; corolla densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 8 mm long, slender, pubescent. Calyx puberulent to glabrescent; 2 longer lobes to 6.5 by 1 cm, lorate, +-obtuse, c. 3 mm broad at base; 3 shorter lobes to 20 by 6 mm, deltoid, acute, revolute. Nut to 5 mm ø, shortly ovoid, densely shortly buff pubescent; style remnant to 3 mm long glabrous.
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