Trees 7-15 m. tall; branchlets conspicuously angulate, minutely canescent to glabrate; leaves long-petiolate, the blade very broadly ovate, subcaudate-acuminate, broadly cordate, 12-30 cm. long, 6-20 cm. broad, membranaceous, minutely canescent to glabrate beneath, the petioles 7-12 cm. long; inflorescences about half as long as the subtending leaves, bearing several reduced, shortly petiolate leaves above, the ultimate branches terminating in canescent, involucrate cymules bearing 2 staminate and 1 pistillate, sessile or subsessile flowers; staminate flowers about 1 cm. long, densely canescent, the elliptic-oblong outer perianth lobes about equalling the tube, the stamens 3, each subtended by paired sessile staminodia, 4 mm. long, the anthers somewhat longer than the filaments; pistillate flowers about 1.2 cm. long, the perianth lobes about equalling the tube, the cupule about one-third as long as the perianth tube, about 2 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, fleshy, the orifice margin strongly involute. Mature fruit unknown.
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