Small tree up to 18 m; young branches angular, initially slightly ferrugineous-pubescent, glabres-cent. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, shortly obtusely acuminate or cuspidate, cuneate to rotundate at the base, mostly distinctly inequilateral, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brown when dry, shining above, dull beneath, glabrous or slightly pubescent on the midrib and nerves, 7-20 by 3.5-8 cm; nerves 7-8 pairs, little prominent above, markedly so beneath, veins ± transverse and little prominent on both sides, reticulations rather lax; petiole 8-15 mm. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, 7-8 by 2 mm, rather soon caducous. ♂ Flowers in dense, sessile, supra-axillary clusters, densely rusty-pubescent all over. Pedicels 1-3 mm. Sepals ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 2 by 1.5 mm. Petals obovate, white, c. 1 mm long, densely rufous-papillose on both sides; scales minute, densely white-pilose, reddish when dry. Filaments fleshy, densely ferrugineous-papillose, hardly 1 mm. ♀ Flowers unknown. Young fruit subglobose, ferrugineous-tomentose, with 3 bifid, reflexed stigmas. Fruit globose, 4-5 cm diam., sordidly yellow-green, rufo-tomentose-punctate, with thin fragile pericarp; peduncle thick, 5 mm. Seeds 1-3, oblong-trigonous, 2.5-3 by 1.5 cm; testa striate-maculate.
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