Tree 3-10 m high, with spreading crown; bark dark grey, deeply fissured. Branchlets densely white appressed-pubescent. Leaves simple, terete, 8-28 cm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, initially densely appressed-ferruginous, quickly glabrescent. Peduncle simple, 5-18 mm long, densely tomentose; rachis to 6 mm long, white-pubescent. Flowers c. 50-100 per inflorescence, cream-white to pale yellow; pedicels 4-6 mm long, densely white-tomentose. Perianth 2-2.5 mm long, white-tomentose on claw, ferruginous on limb apex. Pistil 1.5-2 mm long; style recurved, rarely ±straight; pollen presenter conical, obliquely inserted. Fruit obliquely ovate, 4.5-5.5 cm long, 2-2.7 cm wide, gradually attenuate into recurved apiculum c. 1-2 mm long. Seed occupying part of valve, c. 30 mm long, 10 mm wide.
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