Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule and petiole densely shortly ocherous pubescent, caducous on all but bud. Twig to 5 mm ø apically, stout, ribbed, glabrous, smooth. Bud to 7 by 5 mm, ovoid, subacute. Stipule to 13 by 5 mm, hastate, subacute. Leaves 6.5-15 by 2.2-6 cm, thickly coriaceous, obovate, +-strongly cupped towards margin; base narrow, obtuse or cuneate; apex obtuse to retuse; nerves 10-11 pairs, slightly raised on both surfaces, indistinct, curved, at 50°-60°, with short slender secondary nerves; midrib stout, prominent, terete beneath, slightly raised above; petiole 1-1.5 cm long. Panicle to 20 cm long, axillary or terminal, singly branched; limits of inflorescence ill-defined, often bearing leaf-like bracts. Flowers to 1.8 cm long; calyx densely shortly pale grey-brown pubescent; flowers typical. Fruit pedicel to 7 mm long, slender; calyx shortly persistently pubescent outside, glabrescent within, free to base; 2 longer lobes to 7 by 2.3 cm, oblong, obtuse, to 3.5 mm broad at base; 3 shorter lobes to 2 by 6 mm, hastate, acute. Nut to 8 mm ø, and globose, puberulent or glabrescent, rugulose, frequently crowned with an up to 2 mm long linear style remnant.
Locally frequent, Heath forest on podsols on coastal raised beaches, and on rentzinas over limestone in the west.
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