Tree 18-24 m; branchlets dark rufous-tomentose. Leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate or elliptic, peltate almost 1 cm beyond the rounded base, ± coriaceous, apex broadly obtusely acuminate, dark olivaceous to blackish-brown when dry, rufous-pilose or tomentose on both faces when very young, glabrous and shining above at maturity except the midrib and nerves which remain pubescent for a long time, dark rufous-pilose to-velutinous all over the undersurface, entire or undulate, (10-)12-24(-34) by 6-12(-17) cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves 12-18 pairs, rather straight and parallel, curved near the edge and inconspicuously anastomosing, nearly flat above, prominent beneath, reticulations lax, raised beneath only; petiole rufous-tomentose, 3-4 cm by 3 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, dense, 12-22 cm, rufous-tomentose on rhachis and pedicels; rhachis 2 mm diam. Bracts minute, ovate-acute. Pedicels rather robust, in twos, free or connate halfway, 3-5 mm. Perianth cream, 25 mm, subdensely rufous-pilose, inflated at the base (2.5 mm), tube 1 mm diam., limb 2.5 mm diam. Anthers 3 mm. Disk glands thick, truncate, free, close, imitating a cup. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style slender. Fruit unknown.
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