Tree up to 24 m high and 60 cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present, low and round. Bark rust brown and light grey mottled, flaky. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, 9-28 by 3-9 cm, glabrous; base cuneate, sometimes unequal; apex acuminate; nerves 11-17 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly elevated or flat above; veins reticulate, usually distinct beneath, sometimes distinct on both surfaces; petiole 2-5 cm. Panicles up to 12 cm long, puberulous; pedicels 4-6 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ellipsoid, 5 by 2½ mm, obtuse. Calyx 5 mm long, bursting irregularly, puberulous outside. Petals imbricate, narrowly elliptic, 8-9 by 1¼-2 mm, puberulous outside, papillate inside; basal 1½-2½ mm longitudinally adnate to the torus. Stamens 5 (or 6), 4½-5½ mm; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1½ mm long. Torus cylindric, 2-3 mm long. Ovary obovoid, 1½ mm long, puberulous; stipe obscure; style lateral, 4 mm. Drupe on an obscure, excentric stalk, obliquely ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, 7½-9 by 5-6 cm, brown or reddish brown, scurfy; embryo subreniform, 5-6½ by 3-4½ cm; cotyledons incompletely fused, free on one side, free part 1½-2 cm deep.
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