Young stems both yellowish-hispid and yellowish-puberulous (indumentum mixed). Leaves: petioles hispid, sometimes also puberulous, 7-16 cm; lamina broadly ovate, apex acute with a pubescent mucro, base slightly cordate or truncate, 8-17 by 6.5-14.5 cm, both surfaces sparsely to moderately pubescent, 7-nerved at the base, stiffly papyraceous. Male flowers unknown. Female inflorescences supra-axillary, cymose, 3-8 cm on peduncles 1.2-5.5 cm, branches tomentellous. Female flowers shortly pedicellate; sepals 9 in 3 whorls, tomentellous, outermost 3 very narrowly oblong, 1.5 mm, middle 3 narrowly elliptic, 2.5 mm, inner 3 broadly elliptic, 2.5 mm; staminodes 6, 1.25 mm, narrowly obtriangular, puberulous; carpels 1 mm, densely pilose, stigma broadly infundibular and recurved. Drupe (?young) pubescent; endocarp subrotund in outline, 4-5 mm ø, c. 2 mm thick, dorsal wing c. 1 mm broad, lateral crests scarcely 1 mm broad with toothed margins.
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