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Leaves (5)6–16 x 2–5(7) cm., ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic; apex long-acuminate; base cuneate to rounded, asymmetrical; margin entire or with a few coarse teeth, (juvenile foliage up to 21 x 9 cm., with apex hardly acuminate and margin coarsely dentate in upper half); lamina membranous-chartaceous, glabrescent, often scabrid, 3-nerved from the base with the basal lateral nerves not or hardly extending into the upper half; upper lateral nerves (2)3–6 on each side of the midrib, prominent above, more strongly so below, usually making an angle of less than 45 degrees with the midrib; petiole 4–8 mm. long; stipules 2–6 mm. long, linear to linear-oblong, whitish pubescent, caducous.
Deciduous tree, 3-30 m high, bark smooth, light grey, young twigs whitish pubescent. Leaves oblong elliptic, tip long acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margins entire, basal lateral veins extending a little into upper half, upper lateral veins extending well into upper half, lateral veins below as prominent as midrib; young foliage often tawny-pubescent on both sides. Inflorescence: male flowers in many cymes; female and bisexual flowers few or solitary. Tepals pubescent. Fruit dark yellowish, conical-ovoid; pedicels 3-10 mm long. Flowering time May?.
A tree. It grows up to 30 m tall or taller. It loses its leaves during the year. The trunk is fluted or has buttresses. The bark is smooth and light grey. The leaves are 6-16 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. The base is rounded and they taper to the tip. The fruit are dark yellow and 4-6 mm long by 3-5 mm wide.
Flowers precocious; male flowers in numerous, crowded, few-many-flowered cymes, pedicels 3–7 mm. long; female and bisexual flowers few or solitary, axillary or at nodes below, pedicels often longer.
Deciduous tree to 3–30(60) m. tall, monoecious or dioecious; bole often fluted or buttressed, bark smooth light grey, wood unpleasant smelling; young stems and branches whitish-pubescent.
Fruit dark yellowish, 4–6(7) x 3–5 mm., conical-ovoid, often 4-angled when dry, glabrous, pedicel 3–10 mm. long.
Ovary ± pubescent or glabrous; styles unbranched, 2–2.5 mm. long.
Sepals 4–5, 1.2–2 mm. long, pubescent.
