Large trees, 15-47 m tall. Leaves: petioles 1.5-6 cm long, slightly winged, slightly swollen at base; lamina obovate-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, 11-36 by 4-9 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, base cuneate, margin serrate-crenulate, apex bluntly acuminate, acumen 5-15 mm long, lower surface glabrous and glaucous; midrib prominulous above, prominent beneath, primary veins 8-18 pairs, brochidodromous, merging through network of veins c. 2 mm from margin, slightly prominulous above, prominulous beneath, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Inflorescences ramiflorous spikes, pendulous, 20-110 cm long, 40-50-flowered; rachis 5-6 mm diam. at base, c. 2 mm at apex, fissured, pulverulent; bracts triangular, c. 4 by 5 mm; bracteoles triangular, c. 4 by 3 mm. Calyx open in bud. Flowers sessile; hypanthium subterete to tetragonous, 6-12 by 5-8 mm, with 4 distinct grooves on corner, ferrugineous pubescent; petals white tipped pink; stamens white, staminal whorls 4-6, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 3-8 mm high, staminodia filiform, 5-13 mm; disc annular, 1.5-2 mm high; ovary (3-)4-locular, 3-6 ovules per locule; style 4.5-6 cm. Fruits ovoid or musiform, fissured, pulverulent, truncate at both ends, 6-15 by 1.5-3.5 cm, single seeded.
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