Tree up to 20 m tall and 36 cm diam. with grey and smooth bark. Young branchlets pubescent. Leaves papery to subcoriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes scattered pubescent beneath, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, rarely elliptic, (7-)11-27 by (3-)6-8.5 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acute to acuminate; nerves (10-)15-25 pairs, curving and ascending towards the margin, elevated and prominent beneath, distinct above; veins loosely reticulate; petiole 5-7 mm. Inflorescences axillary or extra-axillary, branched and up to 1.5 cm peduncled, short-paniculiform, pubescent; pedicels 3-7 mm, pubescent. Flowers 7-12 mm long, yellowish, greenish or yellowish-white. Floral tube cylindric, 10-costate, sparsely hairy outside. Calyx lobes slightly ovate, puberulous inside, 2-3 mm long, densely puberulous on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent on the outside. Petaloid appendages oblong, c. 1 mm long, densely short-hairy. Stamens usually sessile, rarely with very short filaments, almost as long as the petaloid appendages. Disk ring-like to cupular, densely puberulous. Pistil c. 5 mm long, with a distinct stipe c. 2 mm long, the stipe accrescent and elongated. Ovary ellipsoid, attenuate to the base, gradually narrowed at the apex; stigma capitate. Fruit protruding from the top of the floral tube, ellipsoid or obovoid, 2-3.5 by 1.75 cm, slightly puberulous and glabrescent, narrowed to the base into an elongate stipe up to 1.5 cm, acuminate to the apex, usually slightly contracted in the middle; floral tube entire, very rarely splitting on one side (KADIR A 3601). Seeds black, ovoid, 10 by 5 mm, sparsely puberulous, acuminate to the apex, with an elongate tail c. 5 mm long, attached at the center of the appendage, the appendage slender, c. 1 cm long, densely reddish-brown pubescent.
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