Tree up to 35 m; branches glabrous. Leaves oblong-or ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to the subacute apex, attenuate into the petiole to nearly rounded, sometimes a little inequilateral, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, entire, (10-)15-20 by 4-5(-6, rarely up to 8) cm; nerves 9-11 (-12) pairs, veins distinctly reticulate and prominent on both sides; petiole stout, 1.2-1.5 cm. Racemes slender, in the upper axils on the young shoots, simple or branched, lax, grey-tomentose, 10-15(-30) cm. Flowers whitish-greenish, fragrant, 6-7-merous. Pedicels 2-3 mm, in fruit up to 8 mm. Bracts ovate-oblong, subacute, 3-5 mm, glabrescent, caducous. Calyx-tube narrow-obconic, grey-tomentose, 3 mm. Sepals oblong, subacuminate, c. 4 by 1.5 mm, stellate-patent, nerved, glabrescent. Petals similar to the sepals, but remaining shorter in fruit and inflexed above the ovary. Stamens in fascicles of 6-7(-8) before each petal, one stamen between the disk-glands, the others inserted on the base of the petal. Ovary tomentose. Styles 6-7.
Dense, primary forest on level, never inundated ground on sandy clay soils; at elevations up to 100 metres.
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In primary forest on level, never inundated ground on sandy clay, up to 100 m.
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