Trees 15-20 m tall, the branchlets terete, ultimately puberulent, the nodes moderately well spaced. Leaves elliptic or elliptic rotund, 5-14 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, toward the apex, rounded, deltoid, subacute or acuminate, the acumen inconspicuous or to 1.5 cm long, ultimately acute, at the base cuneate or widely cuneate, the costa plane above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 8-10, arcuate, the venules pinnatiform, rigidly chartaceous, concolorous, green, shin-ing, the hairs on both sides minutely strigose, those on the veins appressed, short, velvety; petioles to 3 cm long, ca. 0.12 cm wide, stiff; stipules not seen. Inflorescences axillary, the peduncle to 3 cm long, pubescent, the branches to 3 cm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits obovate oblong, to 2.2 cm long, to 1.2 cm wide, subtruncate at the apex, minutely velutinous, yellow green when dry, attenuate toward the apex, the calycine cup ca. 2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide.
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