Medium-sized tree. Twigs, petioles, panicles, ovaries and parts of perianth exposed in bud ± persistently ocherous cinereous, parts elsewhere glabrescent. Twig c. 2-3 mm ø apically, much branched, brown rugulose. Buds to 3 by 2 mm, ovoid. Leaves 6-14 by 3-7 cm, elliptic to narrowly ovate or obovate, coriaceous, dull beneath; base cuneate; apex subacute or shortly broadly acuminate; margin narrowly subrevolute; nerves 5-7 pairs, ascending, slender but prominent beneath, evident above as also the midrib and reticulate tertiary nerves; petiole 8-15 mm long, 2-3 mm ø, stout. Panicle to 15 cm long but usually shorter, terminal or axillary, irregularly branched. Flower bud 7 by 2 cm, fusiform; appendage short, deltoid; style somewhat longer than ovary, columnar, expanding into the prominent conical stigma; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel short, stout; calyx lobes to 3 by 3 mm, short, deltoid, incrassate, relaxed, adnate to the base of the 4.5 by 1.8 cm fusiform beaked coarsely verrucose nut.
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