Tree 16-24 m, 20-30 cm ø; buttresses c. 0.7 m tall, 1-2 m out, 10 cm thick; bark smooth, grey. Branchlets initially densely yellowish brown tomentose by simple and stellate, adpressed hairs, later glabrous, greyish green, finely fissured, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-globose, 2-4 by 2-3 mm, scale ovate. Leaves thin-coriaceous,(13-)17-24(-26) by (3-)4-5(-6) cm (index 3-5), broadest at or above the middle; surfaces concolorous, glabrous, pale greenish brown, above dull, beneath glossy; base acute, top abruptly acute to 1-1½ cm acuminate; midrib strongly prominent on both sides; nerves (7-)9-10(-12) pairs, prominent beneath, impressed above, subparallel, at an angle of 30-50°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation lax, fine, subscalariform to irregular, distinct beneath; petiole (½-)1-1½(-1¾) cm, 1½-2 mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, sparsely to densely fulvous adpressed, stellate hairy; bracts and bracteoles ovate, ⅔-2 by ⅓-1 mm. Male rachis c. 10 cm, 1 mm ø; ♂ flowers solitary, filaments 3-4 mm, anthers 0.30 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1½-2 mm ø. Androgynous or mixed rachis 10-15 cm, 2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes well-developed and exceeding the perianth, styles 3, terete, 2-3 mm, connate at the base. Ripe cupule subsessile, cup-shaped, ½-1 cm long, 1½-2 cm ø; rim thin, covering ¼-⅓ part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely silvery to fulvous tomentose by adpressed. minute simple hairs, outside densely fulvous adpressed, stellate hairy; scales adpressed, imbricate. Ripe fruit ovoid, 1½-2 cm in size, densely covered by rufous, adpressed, simple hairs, top rounded-acute, base rotundate, scar deeply concave, c. 1 cm ø; wall woody, c. 1 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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