Tree up to 30 m tall with short buttresses, evergreen. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, sparsely or towards the nodes more densely brownish minutely appressedly puberulous, smooth, drying brown to greyish. Leaves distichous; lamina subcoriaceous, entire, elliptic to subobovate, 15-35 by 8-16 cm, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, broad bases usually minutely auriculate, equal, margin entire, slightly revolute to flat; upper surface sparsely brownish appressedly puberulous on the midrib, smooth, occasionally ± bullate; lower surface sparsely brownish appressedly puberulous on the midrib to whitish hispidulous on the smaller veins, ± scabrous; lateral veins 10-17 pairs, none (or one) forked away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, 2-3 mm thick, sparsely whitish puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, brownish appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary (or on axillary short-shoots), solitary or in pairs, patent; peduncle 8-13 mm long, densely brown appressedly puberulous; head obovoid to subglobose, c. 1.5 cm diam.; perianth with 3 or 4 free tepals, c. 0.2 mm long; stamen c. 0.5 mm long, anther c. 0.2 mm; interfloral bracts peltate, persistent, the apical part 0.4-0.6 mm diam., ciliolate. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 2.5-4.5 cm long, broadened at the apex, densely minutely brown puberulous; head subglobose to ellipsoid; perianth brown puberulous; stigma simple, c. 1.5 mm long; interfloral bracts, few, peltate, the apical part c. 0.3 mm diam., persistent. Infructescences to c. 6 cm diam., lobed, with pyramidate hardened apices of the perianths; fruit ellipsoid, c. 1.2 cm long.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 30 m tall. It has short buttresses. The leaves are in 2 rows and are narrowly oval with a pointed tip. Male and female flowers are separate in the axils of leaves. The fruit are oval and 1.2 cm long.
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