Small to medium-sized tree. Leaf bud, petiole and panicle persistently pale rufous scabrid somewhat flocculent puberulent; young twigs and calyx outside caducously so; young leaves fugaceously so; petals on parts exposed in bud and ovary prominently evenly pale rufous puberulent. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, slender, becoming dark brown, smooth, terete. Buds to 2 by 1 mm, small, ovoid. Leaf 5-14 by 2-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, coriaceous, somewhat lustrous; base broadly cuneate to obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long; nerves 11-14 pairs, slender, arched, distinctly elevated beneath, slightly so above as also the midrib; tertiary nerves densely subreticulate, evident and slightly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 6-16 mm long, slender. Panicle to 3.5 cm long, terminal or axillary, shortly irregularly branched. Flower buds to 5 by 2 mm; appendages c. 1/2 length of anthers, small, deltoid; style shorter than ovary, columnar, expanding to the short conical style; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 3 by 0.5 mm, very slender, prominent; 2 longer calyx lobes to 6 by 1.4 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 3 mm wide at the subrevolute base; 3 shorter lobes to 18 by 6 cm, lanceolate, acute; nut to 5 mm ø, subglobose, mucronate.
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