Medium-sized tree. Young parts ferruginous cinereous, caducous except on twig apices and panicles. Twig 3-6 mm ø apically, straight, terete or ribbed especially along the leaf traces, with conspicuous slightly downpointing stipule scars. Buds to 5 by 3 mm, ovoid-lanceolate, acute, hidden within the to 35 by 12 mm lanceolate subpersistent stipules. Leaves 13-40 by 5-16 cm, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base obtuse or occasionally cordate; margin ± narrowly revolute; apex subacu-minate to acute; nerves 14-25 pairs, arched, slender but prominent beneath, distinctly elevated above as also the midrib, with many short indistinct secondary nerves; tertiary nerves reticulate, distinctly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 13-25(-40) mm long, 3-5 mm ø, stout, characteristically puckered on drying. Panicle to 9 cm long, axillary to ramiflorousflower buds to 14 by 5 mm, fusiform; anthers oblong, tapering, relatively long; appendages very short; style somewhat longer than ovary, columnar, capitate; stigma conical, prominent; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 5 by 1 mm, slender, long; calyx lobes to 7 by 4 mm, lanceolate, subacute, reflexed at base, upcurved distally; nut to 15 mm ø, subglobose, with 3 indistinct loculicidal grooves.
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