Tree, 18 m. Branchlets greyish brown, glabrous, densely lenticellate; terminal bud ovoid-globose, 2-3 by 2 mm, with dense stellate tomentum, glabrescent. Leaves concolorous, elliptic-oblong, 8-16 by 2-2½ cm; base rounded and abruptly acute, apex acute to ½-1 cm acuminate; glabrous on both surfaces; midrib prominent beneath, flat above; nerves 10-13 pairs, ascending, subparallel, arcuating towards the margin, slightly prominent on both surfaces; reticulation distinct on both sides; petiole 1-2 cm, adaxially shallowly furrowed. Rachis of the infructescence rigid, up to 18 cm, ½ cm thick, densely lenticellate, with adpres-sed stellate tomentum, glabrescent. Ripe cupule compressed obovoid-globose, more or less symmetrically 4-lobed, thin-walled, completely enclosing the fruits; surface with regular undulating ridges of flattened minute tubercles, fulvous-hoary, 2-3 by 3-3½ cm; dehiscence into 4 ± equal segments; peduncle 1-1½ by ½ cm, rugose and usually twisted. Fruits 3 in each cupule, ovoid-conical, 1½-2 by 1.5-1.8 cm, the adjoining sides of both central and lateral fruits found concave, the scar covering ⅓-2/5 part, the free part glossy with a thin short indumentum; top abruptly pointed; cotyledons flat-convex.
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