Large tree, up to c. 30 m tall, up to 50 cm ø. Leaves elliptic, subcoriaceous, c. 17-21-nerved, 30-60(-90) by 16-40(-60) cm, blade with rounded to obtuse apex, obtuse to acute base and entire to slightly undulate-dentate margin. Petiole c. 5-10 cm long, wings up to 2½ cm broad, often caducous. Flowers solitary, terminal, probably never expanding, sepals only slightly diverging in anthesis, petals falling without spreading. Pedicel c. 15-20 mm long, 5 mm thick, without bracteoles. Sepals c. 18, increasing in size towards centre of flower, from orbicular c. 20 by 20 mm to broad-elliptic c. 50 by 43 mm, glabrous. Petals 7, red, narrowly obovate, cuculiate, c. 10 by 4 cm. Stamens c. 220, slightly curved in bud, all of approximately the same length, 45 mm long. Carpels 10, c. 17 by 6 mm, glabrous, with 23 mm long styles, each with c. 15-20 ovules.
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A tree. It grows 40 m tall. The trunk can be 1 m across. The bark is red-orange and peels off in plates. The leaves are narrowly oval and the edges can be slightly wavy and sometime with teeth. The flowers are in groups of 4-7. These are in groups 40 cm long. The flowers are yellow with reddish stamens. They are 10 cm across. The fruit is a round capsule which splits open in a star shape when ripe. The seeds are brown and have a fleshy layer or aril around the lower section.
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