Tree up to 25 m tall of intermittent growth with terminal and axillary buds, deciduous (?). Leafy twigs 4-6 mm thick, densely brown puberulous to velutinous, smooth, drying brown to blackish. Leaves distichous; lamina (sub)coriaceous, entire, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or to subrotundate, 18-36 by 11-27 cm, apex short-acuminate (to rounded), base cordate to rounded, usually ± unequal to equal, margin entire to denticulate towards the apex, ± revolute to flat; upper surface brownish to whitish puberulous mainly on the main veins, smooth; lower surface brownish to whitish puberulous to subhispidulous on the veins, scabridulous; lateral veins 10-14 pairs, most of them forked or branched away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, prominent, also the smaller veins prominent; petiole (1.5-)3-7 cm long, 2.5-3 mm thick, densely brown puberulous to velutinous, the epidermis persistent; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, brownish puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary (or in pairs); peduncle (0.5-)1.5-2.2 cm long, brown short-velutinous; head obovoid to ellipsoid to subglobose, (2-)2.5-5 cm long, 2-3.5 cm diam.; perianth with 3 or 4 free tepals, c. 0.6 mm long; stamen 1 mm long, anther c. 0.2 mm long; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.3-0.5 mm diam., puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 2-7 (?) cm long, brown short-velutinous; head subglobose; stigma simple; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.3-0.5 mm diam., puberulous, caducous. Infructescences subglobose, up to 6 cm diam., puberulous; fruits subglobose, c. 1.5 diameter.
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