Tree up to 40 m high and 80 cm ø. Buttresses 1 ½ m high, ⅓ m wide, 5-7½ cm thick. Bark dark brown, irregularly fissured. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, 5-17 ½ by 3-9 cm; pubescent beneath, especially on the midrib and nerves, often glabrous above except pubescent on the midrib; base cuneate; apex rounded or emarginate; nerves 10-22 pairs, prominent below, flat but distinct above; veins reticulate, or transverse and parallel, often distinct on both surfaces; petiole 1-2 cm. Panicles up to 18 cm long, tomentose; pedicels 10-20 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ellipsoid, 10-12 by 5 mm, obtuse. Calyx 10-12 mm long, circumscissile, densely puberulous outside. Petals white, red at the base, imbricate, obovate-oblong or-lanceolate, 10-15 by 3-5 mm, puberulous outside. Stamens pink, c. 100, 7-10 mm; filaments hairy; anthers oblong, ¾ mm long. Torus subgltfbose, 1 ½ mm ø. Ovary obovoid, 2½ mm long, densely hairy; stipe c. 1 mm; style terminal, 3 mm. Drupe on a centric stalk (c. ½ cm), subglobose, 2-3 cm ø, smooth; without enlarged petals; embryo sub-globose, 1½-2 cm ø; cotyledons free.
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