Small to medium sized trees, 13-25 m tall. Leaves clustered at end of branches; petioles 1-2.5(-7) cm long, winged on upper portion; lamina obovate-lanceolate or rarely obovate-oblong, 24-90 by 9-21 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate, margin serrate-crenulate, apex acuminate or obtuse, acumen c. 10 mm long, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, more so beneath, primary veins 15-30 pairs, brochidodromous, running almost to margin and merging through network of intercostal veins, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Cataphylls on sterile twigs triangular, 7-20 by c. 4 mm, on fertile twigs lanceolate or triangular, 8-50 by 4-12 mm, serrate, acute; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Inflorescences terminal spikes, 40-110 cm long, pendulous, with 50-60 flowers; rachis 10-15 mm diam. at base, 4-7 mm at apex, finely fulvous-pulverulent. Calyx open in bud, fulvous-pulverulent, red. Flowers sessile; hypanthium tetragonous, without wings and grooves, semi-amplexicaul at base by a thickened ring, 6-8 by 4-7 mm, thickly fulvous pulverulent; sepals ovate-orbicular, 4-7 by 4-11 mm, pulverulent on exterior, fimbriate; petals pink or red; staminal whorls 5-6, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 4-5 mm high, staminodia 12-23 mm; disc annular, undulating, grooved, 1-1.5 mm high; ovary 4-locular, 4-7 ovules per locule; style 4-7 cm long. Fruits ovoid, tetragonous or terete, tapering at both ends, ferrugineous-pulverulent, 7-11 by 4-7.5 by 4.5-7.5 cm. Seeds single, ovoid, 4-5 by 2-3 cm, with longitudinal fissures.
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