Tree 10-15 m. Twigs 5-10 mm diameter, at first with dense conspicuous rusty hairs 1-2.5 mm long, glabrescent; bark hardly striate, lower down reddish brown to blackish, conspicuously flaking. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, oblong(-oblanceolate), 23-36 (-56) by 5-12(-14) cm, apex acute(-acuminate), base rounded to cordate, with the basal nerves somewhat crowded; greenish brown, and ± glossy above; lower surface glabrous, finely papillate; dots absent; midrib distinctly raised above; nerves 17-25 pairs, raised; venation fine or coarse, faint; petiole late glabrescent, 10-16 by 4-5 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple or up to 7-furcate or warted, 5-15 mm long, in male 2-5 (-30)-flowered, female 2-5-flowered; flowers with persistent brown hairs 0.7-1.2 mm long; perianth 3-lobed, at base somewhat thickened and coarsely striate or grooved into separate pads, red(?) inside. Male flowers: pedicel 7-9 mm long, bracteole caducous or subpersistent, about median or below; buds ± depressed globose-obovoid, 5-6 by 5-6.5 mm, cleft 2/3-3/4, lobes 1 mm thick; staminal disc faintly triangular, flat, 2-2.5 mm diameter; anthers 13 or 14, subsessile, almost horizontal, 0.5-0.7 mm, not touching; androphore tapering, striate, 1-1.5 mm long. Female flowers not seen. Fruits 1 or 2 per infructescence, obovoid or subglobose, 2.5 by 2 cm, with dense dark brown hairs 0.6-1 mm long; dry pericarp 2.5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 10 mm long; stigma remnants many-lobulate, sessile.
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