Small, low-branched tree. Young parts pale brown caducous puberulent, persisting on into the young fruit on calyx and ovary. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, straight, terete, smooth, pale grey-brown. Buds minute. Leaves 6-16 by 2-5.6 cm, narrowly elliptic, thinly coriaceous; base narrowly cuneate; acumen to 2 cm long, slender, subcaudate; nerves 9-11 pairs, arched, ascending, slender, hardly elevated on either surface as also the reticulate tertiary nerves and somewhat more prominent midrib; petiole 5-8 mm long, short, slender. Panicle to 4 cm long, terminal or subterminal axillary, few branched. Fruit pedicel to 4 by 1 mm, slender, long; calyx lobes to 8 by 3 mm, lanceolate, loosely clasping the c. 1 cm ø subglobose smooth mucronate nut.
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