Tree 10-25 m, 20-60 cm ø; bark smooth to finely scaly, yellowish to greyish brown. Branchlets initially densely fulvous to rufous stellate hairy, later glabrous, smooth, greyish to dark chocolate-brown; terminal buds ovoid, ½-1 by 1 mm, scales ovate-acute. Stipules deltoid, ½-1 by ½ mm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, (9-)12-14(-17) by (4-)5-6(-7) cm (index 2-2.7), broadest about the middle; surfaces more or less discolorous, above glabrous, pale to dark chocolate-brown, glossy, beneath yellowish to greyish brown tomentose by adpressed, minute stellate hairs; base acute to cuneate, top bluntly to sharply ½-1½ cm acuminate, rarely acute; midrib strongly prominent on both sides; nerves (9-) 10-12(-16) pairs, obscure on both surfaces, subparallel, at an angle of 45-60°, arcuating and anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, irregular, obscure; petiole subglabrous, (½-)1(-1⅓) cm, 1-3 mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, densely fulvous to rufous adpressed stellate hairy; bracts and bracteoles ovate, ½-1 by ½ mm. Male rachis 5-20 cm, 1 mm ø; ♂ flowers solitary, filaments 2½-3½ mm, anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long, pistillode globose, c. 1 mm ø. Androgynous or mixed rachis 10-16 cm, 1½-2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes rudimentary, styles 3, conical, 1-1½ mm, recurved. Ripe cupule sessile, saucer-shaped, 2-5 mm long, 15-21 mm ø; rim thin, covering the basal part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely silvery grey tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs, outside densely yellowish to greyish brown adpressed stellate hairy; lamellae 4-8, concentric, entire. Ripe fruit ovoid, 16-18 mm long, 20-22 mm ø, densely whitish grey tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, glabrescent, top abruptly rounded-acute, base rotundate, scar deeply concave, 8-10 mm ø; wall woody, thinner than 1 mm, for the greater part free from the cupule; cotyledons flat-convex.
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