Tree up to 30 m high and 1¼U m ø. Buttresses occasionally present, steep, up to 3 m high, ½ m wide. Bark light brown, finely dippled. Leaves (pseudo-whorled) coriaceous, obovate, obovate-oblong, or broadly elliptic, 15-24(-35) by 9-13½ (-18) cm, glabrous, sometimes puberulous on the lower surface especially on the midrib and nerves when young, glabrescent; base cuneate; apex round or slightly emarginate; nerves 16-29 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly elevated above; veins reticulate, or transverse and parallel, often faint on both surfaces, sometimes distinct beneath; petiole ¾-2 cm. Panicles 17-30 cm long, tomentose; pedicels 2½-4½ mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ovoid, 2-3 by 1½-2 mm, obtuse. Calyx 2-3 mm, bursting irregularly (sometimes hanging round the pedicel like a loose collar), puberulous outside. Petals white, imbricate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, or narrow-oblong, 5-6 by 1-1½ mm, densely puberulous on both surfaces; basal part ¾-1 mm longitudinally adnate to the torus. Stamens 5, 5 mm; filaments pilose; anthers oblong, ¾ mm long. Torus cylindric, c. 1½ mm long. Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm ø, pilose; stipe 1-1½ mm; style terminal, 1½-2 mm. Drupe on a centric stalk (c. 1 cm), subglobose, 3¾ cm ø, brown, smooth; without winglike, enlarged petals; embryo subglobose, 2¾-3 cm Ø; cotyledons free.
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