Medium-sized tree. Twigs, petiole, leaf buds, stipules, nut, fruit pedicel and midrib and nerves beneath densely ± persistently evenly pale brown puberulent, leaf undersurface and fruit calyx sparsely so. Twig c. 2 mm ø apically, ribbed at first, becoming terete. Leaf bud to 5 by 4 mm, ovoid, acute; stipule to 8 by 3 mm, lanceolate, fugaceous. Leaves 8-15 by 9.5-7 cm, elliptic to obovate, thinly coriaceous; margin narrowly subrevolute; base narrowly obtuse; acumen to 1.5 cm long, downcurved and twisting over on pressing; nerves 11-14 pairs, arched, slender but prominent beneath, evident and slightly elevated above as also the midrib; tertiary nerves subscalariform, very slender but slightly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 15-20 mm long, slender, prominently geniculate. Flowers and inflorescences unknown. Fruit pedicel to 5 mm long; calyx lobes unequal, 2 longer lobes to 6.5 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, subacute, c. 5 mm broad at base; 3 shorter lobes to 1.5 by 6 mm, lanceolate-acuminate; nut to 6 mm ø, subglobose.
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