Tree 5-30 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral. Juvenile and intermediate leaves 28-40 cm long, 150-300 mm wide across lobes, 3-5-fid or 3-5 (-10)-partite with narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate ascending lobes 10-25 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, rarely some secondary division. Adult leaves usually entire, narrowly oblong to slightly narrowly obovate, 9-24 cm long, 15-60 mm wide; margins shortly recurved; surfaces dissimilar, with lower surface sericeous, silvery grey. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, erect to decurved, simple or rarely few-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 9-22 cm long, weakly acropetal to subsynchronous. Flowers transverse on rachis. Flower colour: perianth green in late bud becoming white to cream; style cream to white. Perianth sericeous outside, glabrous inside or papillose to minutely pubescent towards base. Nectary arcuate. Pistil 13.5-16 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter very oblique, convex. Follicle compressed-ovoid to-broadly ellipsoidal, 17-26 mm long, glabrous, rugulose, not viscid.
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