Tree 15-30 m. Twigs 4-6 mm diameter, at first with rusty hairs 0.5-1 mm long, glabrescent; bark striate, not or but rarely tending to crack or flake. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic or oblong, (12-) 17-36 by (5—)7—13 cm, base shallowly cordate or subcuneate, apex acute(-acuminate); glabrescent except midrib (which remains longer pubescent in the basal part), drying greenish to brown, with distinct hair scars above; lower surface greenish grey, finely papillate, with subpersistent mixed sessile and stalked hairs 0.3-1.2 mm long; dots present, predominantly on the finer nerves; midrib slightly raised above; nerves 14-22 pairs, flat or slightly raised; venation ± flat, distinct; petiole late glabrescent, 6-18 by 3-5 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple, warted or forked, 4-8 mm diameter; in male 20-50-flowered, female 10-40-flowered; flowers with pale to dark brown hairs 0.1-0.5(-0.8) mm long; perianth (3-or) 4-or 5-lobed, reddish (?) inside. Male flowers: pedicel slender, 20-30 mm long; bracteole 1 (or 2), 1-2 mm long, persistent, about median; buds depressed globose, ± sagged at base, 3-4 by 4-5 mm, cleft 3/4-4/5, lobes 0.6-1 mm thick, perianth at base with a conspicuous disc surrounding the androphore; staminal disc appressed to perianth disc, distinctly mammillate, circular, 2-3 mm diameter; anthers 14-18, just stiped, horizontal, 0.5-0.6 mm long, spaced; androphore 0.6-1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel 10-12 mm long, bracteole persistent, about median; buds ellipsoid-obovoid, 6 by 5 mm, inside with disc at base, cleft 1/2-2/3, lobes 1 mm thick; ovary subglobose, 1.5-2 mm diameter, stigma subsessile, about 5-lobed, each lobe again shallowly 2-8-lobulate. Fruits 1-4 per infructescence, subglobose, somewhat broader than long, 2-3 by 2.5-2.8 cm, with dark brown hairs, 0.3-0.5 mm long; suture grooved, dry pericarp 4-5 mm thick; fruiting pedicel 18-30 mm long.
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