Medium-sized tree. Young parts pale brown caducous cinereous, panicle and nut ± persistently so. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, slender, rather straight, terete, smooth, pale brown. Bud to 2 by 2 mm, small, ovoid; stipule fugaceous. Leaf 9-20 by 3-8 cm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, thinly coriaceous; base narrowly obtuse to broadly cuneate; acumen to 2 cm long; nerves 11-14 pairs, slender but prominent beneath, evident above, arched, with or without short secondary nerves; midrib slender but prominent beneath, sharply elevated above; tertiary nerves densely subreticulate; petiole 11-18 mm long, c. 2 mm ø, relatively short. Panicles to 12 cm long, terminal or axillary, rather straight; flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel to 3 by 2 mm; calyx lobes to 2.5 by 1 cm, lanceolate, subacute, unequal but patent; nut to 15 mm ø, to 12 mm long, depressed-globose; shortly mucronate.
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