Tall tree, 20-60 cm diam.; branchlets red-brown, glabrous. Leaves obovate, very broadly attenuate and obtuse or mostly rounded at the apex, sometimes slightly emarginate, cuneate and decurrent nearly to the base of the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous, yellowish-olivaceous or brownish and somewhat shining above when dry, dull brown beneath, entire, 11-14(-18) by 5.5-7(-9.5) cm; midrib prominent on both faces, robust beneath; nerves (9-) 10-11 pairs, coming from the midrib at + right angles, rather straight in the lower 2/3, bifid and ± distinctly curved-anastomosing, slightly prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulations rather dense, minutely but well visibly raised on both faces; petiole ½-1(-1.5) cm, ± distinctly winged, robust, thickened and rugose at the base. Racemes axillary, stout, dense, practically glabrous, 10-14 cm, nigrescent; rhachis angled, c. 2.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acute, 1 mm, subpersistent. Pedicels in twos, rather robust, connate at the base, 5-7 mm. Perianth white, cream or yellowish-green, c. 20 mm, tube 0.8-1 mm diam., limb clavate, subacute, c. 2.2 mm diam. Anthers c. 4 mm. Disk glands broadly ovate, nearly quadrangular, free, close. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not known.
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