Twigs, petioles, buds and stipules outside shortly fulvous flocculent tomentose, patchily caducous except on buds. Twigs c. 2 mm ø apically, smooth. Bud to 3 by 3 mm, ovoid, acute, prominent. Stipules to 10 by 3 mm, lorate, leaving conspicuous pale horizontal scars. Leaves 5.5-12.5 by 1.2-5 cm, elliptic, somewhat chartaceous; base cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, deltoid; nerves 9-11 pairs, with few short secondary nerves, applanate above, slender but prominent beneath, arched at 35°-50°; midrib prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves slender, reticulate; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, prominently geniculate, ribbed. Panicle to 4 cm long, axillary, short, ribbed, shortly patchily caducous fulvous flocculent tomentose, irregularly singly branched; bracteoles c. 2 mm long, linear. Flower buds to 1 cm long, fusiform; calyx rufous flocculent tomentose; corolla bright red; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit shortly fulvous flocculent tomentose, subpersistent on nut, patchily caducous elsewhere. Pedicel to 3 mm long; calyx lobes free to within 2 mm of the pedicel; 2 longer calyx lobes to 8 by 2.5 cm, lorate to narrowly ovate, obtuse, c. 7 mm wide and somewhat revolute at base; 3 shorter lobes to 2.5 by 1 cm, narrowly ovate, acute, 3 mm wide at base. Nut to 7 by 7 mm, globose, shortly mucronate.
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