Trees up to 30 m. tall, the younger twigs relatively slender, softly white-puberulent to glabrate. Leaves relatively small, rather narrowly obovate-oblong, the tip rather abruptly subcaudate-acuminate, the base obtuse or rounded, 8-18 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, membranaceous, softly white-tomentellous or puberulent on the veins beneath; petioles about 5 mm. long. Inflorescences possibly dioecious, globose, the staminate with peduncles about 1 cm. long, very slender, about 1 cm. in diameter. Staminate flowers: tepals 5, nearly free and essentially equal, about 2 mm. long; stamens 3-4, widely exserted, the anthers basifixed, oblongoid, about 1 mm. long. Pistillate flowers presently unknown. Nearly mature fruits globose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter, with persistent peltate bracts, the seed about 1 cm. long.
Moist or wet, mixed forest, ascending from sea level to about 2,200 metres, but chiefly at low elevations.
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