Tree, up to 20 m high, 35 cm diam., with reddish brown bark. Leaves oblong, ca 15-20-nerved, 16-30 by 7-16 cm, with acute to acuminate apex, acute to obtuse base, and nearly entire to manifestly dentate margin. Petiole 1½-5 cm long. Flowers solitary or in a 2(-3)-flowered raceme with the flowers attached close to each other, ca 6 cm diam. Sepals 5, ovate, 10-14 by 9-11 mm, densely silky hirsute outside. Petals yellow, ca 25 by 15 mm. Stamens in 2 distinct groups, the outer ones ca 200, 6-7½ mm long, straight in bud, the inner ones ca 18-20, 10-11 mm long, with their apex reflexed in bud. Carpels 7-10, white, ca 4-5 by 1½ mm, with white, 5-6 mm long styles, each with 15-20 ovules. Fruit indehiscent, yellow or orange-yellow, about globular, 2-2½ cm diam. including the enclosing sepals, which are up to 35 by 20 mm, up to 2½ mm thick at the base. Carpels ca 12 by 7 mm, 1-2-seeded. Seeds 5 by 3½ mm, exarillate.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 20 m tall. The trunk does not have branches for 6 m. The trunk is 35 cm across. The bark is cracked and reddish-brown. The leaves are simple and oval. They are 16-30 cm long by 1-16 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. The leaf stalk is 5 cm long and does not have wings. The flowers are yellow and 6 cm across. The fruit is round and 2-4 cm across.
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