Twig, raceme, leaf bud, stipule and petiole densely pale brown to fulvous scabrid tomentose, sparsely so on leaf nervation beneath. Twig to 5 mm ø apically, stout, becoming ribbed, smooth or finely cracked. Bud to 8 by 5 mm, conical, subacute. Stipule to 15 by 5 mm, narrowly hastate, acute. Leaves 22-35 by 7-15 cm, thinly coriaceous, oblong to obovate; base obtuse; acumen to 1.4 cm long, deltoid; nerves 15-28 pairs, prominent beneath, flat or slightly raised above; petiole 1-2 cm long, to 4 mm ø, stout. Panicle to 12 cm long, axillary to ramiflorous (rarely terminal), to 3-axillary, terete or angled; much branched, the branchlets cymose; bracts to 8 by 4 mm, narrowly deltoid, subacute, densely rufous tomentose, subpersistent. Flower bud to 8 mm long; calyx shortly red-brown pubescent; appendage to connective over 1/2 length of anther, prominent; flower otherwise typical. Fruit glabrous; pedicel to 2 mm long. Calyx lobes subequal, to 16 by 7 mm, oblong-hastate, obtuse, becoming reflexed, somewhat revolute. Nut to 2.5 by 2.5 cm, subglobose to ovoid, verrucose-lenticellate, with 3 distinct sutures uniting at the apex; style remnant short but prominent.
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