Tree 6-27 m, 25-60 cm ø; bark pale grey, lenticellate. Branchlets initially densely fulvous to rufous tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs, later glabrous, greyish brown, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid, 1-1½ by ⅔ mm, scales narrowly ovate. Leaves thick-coriaceous, (12-)15-22(-24) by (4-)5-7(-10) cm (index (2½-)3-3½(-4)), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces more or less concolorous, above glabrous, dull to glossy, pale greyish brown, underneath densely tomentose by adpressed minute, stellate hairs, glabrescent; base acute, rarely rounded, top bluntly or sharply 1-2 cm acuminate; midrib strongly prominent on both sides; nerves 9-11 pairs, prominent beneath, impressed above, subparallel, at an angle of 45-60°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, subscalariform to irregular, obscure; petiole ½-1 cm, 1½-2½ mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, densely fulvous stellate hairy; bracts and bracteoles ovate-acute, ⅔-1 by ½ mm. Male rachis 5-15 cm, 1-1½ mm ø; ♂ flowers solitary, or rarely in clusters of 2-3, perianth 5-6-lobed, stamens 10-12, filaments 2½-3 mm, anthers 0.3 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1 mm ø. Androgynous or mixed rachis 15-25 cm, 1½-2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes well-developed and exceeding the perianth, occasionally pollini-ferous, styles 3, conical, 1-1½ mm, recurved. Ripe cupule sessile, saucer-shaped, 3-5 mm long, 2-2 ⅔ cm ø; rim thin, undulate and recurved, covering the basal part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely greyish tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, outside densely fulvous stellate hairy; scales adpressed, obscure. Ripe fruit ovoid-globose, 1⅔-2½ cm long, 1⅓-2 cm ø, densely greyish tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, subglabrescent, top rounded-acute, base cordate, scar deeply concave, 1 cm ø; wall bony, thinner than 1 mm, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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