Trees to 12 m tall, to 25 cm d.b.h.; branches spreading and slightly drooping; juvenile branches cylindrical, with hairs ca. 0.3 mm, glabrescent, then bark grayish brown, longitudinally striate. Petiole 1.2-1.5 cm, pubescent, glabrescent; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 13-24 × 4-6.5 cm, papery to nearly leathery, abaxially grayish white, with grayish brown stellate-dendroid pubescence, glabrescent with age, base broadly cuneate to nearly rounded, margins nearly parallel, apex acute or shortly acuminate; lateral veins 18-25 pairs. Male inflorescences 1-6 mm, stalked, 2-10-flowered. Male flowers: pedicel 6-10 mm; bracteole at about middle; perianth in bud obovoid, ca. 5.5 × 3.5 mm, lobes 3 or 4; staminal disk circular or subtriangular, ± flat; anthers ca. 10. Female flowers not known. Fruiting pedicel 3-6 mm. Fruits 1-3, on 3-4 mm peduncle, ellipsoid or obovoid, 2.5-4 × 2-2.8 cm, with rusty pubescence, hairs 1-2 mm, late glabrescent; perianth ± persistent; pericarp ca. 2 mm thick when dry. Aril open at apex. Fl. Dec-Feb, fr. May-Jun.
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