Trees, to 11 m high, the branchlets thick, at first furfuraceous with small appressed ferruginous scales. Leaves large, with thick marginate petioles to 1.5 cm long; leaf blades chartaceous or subcoriaceous, entire, paler and brown beneath, glabrate above, furfuraceous-with appressed scales on the lower surface, lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 15-23.5 cm long and 6-8 cm wide, abruptly acuminate apically, the acumen acute, narrowed basally, acute and decurrent on the petiole, the costa impressed above, elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins nearly horizontal, prominent beneath, evi-dent but less conspicuous above, reticulate. Inflorescences terminal, bipin-nately paniculate, narrow, to 15 cm long, few-branched, the secondary branches short, spur-like, congested, furfuraceous, the bracts small, scale-like. Flowers 5-merous, glomerate, subsessile; pedicels thick, to 2 mm long; sepals free, indurated, furfuraceous, forming a cupule, fimbriate, depressed ovate-orbic-ular, 2.5-3.5 mm long, asymmetrical, black-punctate with small glands; corolla (in bud) glabrous, the petals indurated, narrowly elliptic, acute, punctate; stamens (in bud) with short filaments, the anthers (in bud) narrowly lance-olate, acute, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary subcylindrical, widest below, the ovules pluriseriate, numerous, the style 3.4 mm long, conspicuously black-punctate with protruding glands.
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