Medium-sized tree. Twigs, petioles, leaf buds, midrib above, panicles and nut densely persistently tawny scabrid pubescent, leaf nervation beneath sparsely so, calyx outside caducously so; outsides of petals densely evenly cream puberulent. Twigs 2-3 mm ø apically, prominently ribbed at first, becoming pale brown, terete. Buds to 6 by 4 mm, ovoid-lanceolate, acute. Leaves 6-11 by 2.5-5 cm, elliptic to narrowly obovate, coriaceous; base broadly cuneate to obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, slender, prominent; nerves 9-11 pairs, prominent beneath, distinctly depressed above with the leaf surface bullate between, arching within the margin; tertiary nerves subreticulate, distinctly elevated beneath, hardly so above; midrib stoutly prominent beneath, shallowly depressed though evident above; petiole 11-15 mm long. Panicles to 3.5 cm long, short, axillary, twice branched from the bases, many-flowered and appearing congested about the bases of the leaves. Flower buds to 8 by 3 mm, fusiform; sepals unequal, ovate-lanceolate; corolla pale yellow; stamens 15; anthers subglobose, appendages prominent, broadly deltoid; style columnar, slightly longer than ovary; stigma conical; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 4 mm long, prominent but hidden in the reflexed sepals; calyx lobes to 8 by 6 mm, equal, broadly lanceolate, becoming reflexed with the apices recurved upwards; nut to 10 by 10 mm, broadly ovoid to subglobose, with 3 distinct loculicidal furrows.
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