Small tree, up to 15 m, 16 cm dbh. Axillary buds elliptic to oblong, 5-7 mm long. Petiole (18—)25—30 mm. Leaf-blade 22-42 by 7-15.5 cm; above rather dull, greenish, beneath dull, concolorous, secondary nerves c. 8-10 pairs, little prominent, in apical part forming an indistinct intramarginal nerve, venation obscure; glands 2-8, 2 situated at the very base and 0.6-1 mm diam., the other ones (if present) scattered, sometimes close to midrib, 0.5 mm diam. Inflorescences much shorter than the leaf; axes strongly flattened basally, grooved, brown, minutely hairy; lower bracts (sub)opposite. Pedicel 2.5-3.5 mm, grooved, densely shortly patently hairy. Sepals: outer sepals 2.8-3.5 by 3.6-4.4 mm; inner sepals 4.5-4.9 by 3.6-4.7 mm. Petals yellowish, when dry dark red with large incrustations, glabrous inside, the longest one 9-10.5 mm; carina appressedly hairy outside. Stamens: filaments widened above base and with a distinct, rather shortly (half-)appressedly hairy knob-like thickening at inner side, further glabrous; anthers 0.6 mm long. Ovary nearly sessile, appressedly hairy; ovules 4. Fruit unknown.
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