Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, and petiole densely ferrugineous powdery tomentose, stipule sparsely so. Twig to 1 mm ø apically, much branched, becoming glabrous, smooth. Bud to 3 by 1.5 mm, ovoid, subacute. Stipules to 5 by 1 mm, linear, caducous. Leaves 2.8-6 by 1-2.3 cm, coriaceous, narrowly ovate to lanceolate; base obtuse; acumen to 1 cm long, caudate; nerves c. 8 pairs, indistinct, unraised, strongly curved, at 60°-75°; midrib slender, prominent beneath, applanate above; petiole 6-9 mm long. Panicle to 2 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, singly branched. Flower bud to 6 mm long, small; calyx grey-brown pubescent; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 3 mm long, slender. Fruit calyx glabrescent but for the persistently puberulent base, lobes free to the pedicel; longer lobes to 6 by 0.7 cm, subequal, oblong, narrowly obtuse, revolute above the abruptly constricted base; 3 shorter lobes to 10 by 7 cm, subequal, broadly ovate, acute, cordate at base, prominently revolute. Nut to 5 by 3.5 mm, broadly ovoid, obtuse, shortly fulvous pubescent.
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