Small tree. Twigs, leaf buds, petioles, midrib above, and panicles densely persistently pale brown scabrid puberulent, nuts evenly so; nervation beneath sparsely so. Twigs c. 2 mm ø, ribbed at first, becoming terete. Leaf buds to 8 by 4 mm, lanceolate, acute. Leaves 7.5-12 by 3-5.5 cm, elliptic, oblong to narrowly ovate, coriaceous, somewhat bullate between the nerves; margin subrevolute; base obtuse; acumen to 1.5 cm long, slender, prominent; nerves c. 11 pairs, arched, tending to branch within the margin and form a +-indistinct looped intramarginal nerve, prominent beneath, shallowly depressed above, with short slender secondary nerves; tertiary nerves subreticu-late, evident beneath, ± obscure above; midrib stoutly prominent beneath, evident but ± channelled above; petiole 10-15 mm long, slender. Panicle to 6.5 cm long, axillary, hardly branched. Flowers unknown. Fruit pedicel to 6 mm long, prominent; calyx lobes equal, to 18 by 10 mm, lanceolate, acute, recurved inwards and ± revolute thus resembling claws; nut ovoid, not known at maturity.
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