Stems and petioles covered with a fulvous indumentum of either short hairs or long, straight hairs, or both mixed together. Leaves: petioles (2.5-)4.5-8 cm; lamina broadly ovate, suborbicular or broadly elliptic, apex broadly pointed to rounded, often with a puberulous mucro, base cordate, truncate or rounded, sometimes subpeltate, (6-)8-20 by (5-)7-20 cm; beneath usually puberulous (sometimes subtomentose or subglabrous), above glabrescent, 3-5-nerved at the base, stiffly papyraceous. Male inflorescences subumbelliform, 2.5-6 cm long with peduncles 1-4 cm, puberulous. Male flowers green or white on slender pedicels up to 4 mm; sepals 6, outer 3 narrowly elliptic, 2 mm long, inner 3 broadly elliptic, 2 mm long, tomentellous; petals 6, 0.5 mm long; stamens 6, 0.75 mm long, anthers dehiscing transversely. Female inflorescences similar to male. Female flowers: sepals as in male flowers; staminodes 6, narrowly oblong 1 mm long, glabrous; carpels 1 mm long, densely pilose, stigma recurved. Drupe when dry similar to endocarp in size and shape, densely fulvous-pilose when young, indumentum becoming sparser; endocarp rotund in outline, 1-1.8 cm ø, dorsally bearing a very thin wing, 3-4 mm broad, laterally bearing cuculliform crests projecting 4-5 mm and with entire margins.
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