Tree c. 24 m. Branchlets glabrous, blackish grey, densely rusty lenticellate. Leaves thin-coriaceous, 6-10 by 2-4 cm (index 2¼-3), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces discolorous, above glabrous, dark greyish brown, dull, beneath densely glaucous-tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs; base rounded-acute, margin undulate, top sharply acute to acuminate; midrib more or less prominent on both sides; nerves 8-10 pairs, parallel, at an angle of c. 60°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin, obscure on both sides; reticulation fine, subscalariform, obscure on both sides; petiole ½-1 cm, 1-2 mm ø, adaxial-ly flat. Inflorescence not known. Cupule ½-1 cm stalked, obovoid-globose, 2½-3½ cm through; wall woody, 1-2 mm thick, outside with 3-4 more or less concentric lamellae, densely greyish brown tomentose by short stellate hairs; base rounded-attenuate, top rotundate, covering the fruit almost completely except for a very small opening at the tip. Fruit depressed-subglobose, 1½-2 cm long, 2-3 cm ø; wall woody, 2-5 mm thick, for the greater part adnate to the cupule; top ½-1 cm ø, depressed-umbonate, base rounded.
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