Small tree, glabrous, the inflorescences excepted. Leaves broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate at the apex, attenuate to cordate-rounded at the base, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, shining on both sides, entire, 23-30 by 9-12 cm; nerves prominent and conjunct along the margin, veins +-transverse, reticulations little prominent.Racemelike panicles from the trunk fulvous-tomentose all over, 5-15 cm. ♂ Flowers: pedicels stout, 3 mm, subtended by an attenuate-oblong bract, 2 mm long. Sepals rounded, villose, 5 mm. Petals elliptic, rounded at the apex, thinner than the sepals, 3 mm, laxly appressed pilose outside; scales 1 mm, slightly lobed. Filaments 1.5 mm; anthers ovate, 1-1.2 mm. ♀ Flowers unknown. Fruit globose, c. 8 cm across, with several compressed, ovoid seeds, 2 by 1.5 cm; pericarp rather fragile.
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