Tree 12-48 m, 10-70 cm ø; bark smooth to flaky, lenticellate, greyish brown. Branchlets initially densely reddish brown adpressed-stellate-hairy, later glabrescent, terete, dark coloured, smooth to shallowly fissured; terminal buds ovoid-ellipsoid, c. 8 by 3 mm, scales ovate to lanceolate. Leaves thick-coriaceous, (15-)16-20(-30) by (6-) 8-10(-11) cm (index 2-3), broadest above or at the middle; surfaces more or less concolorous, above glabrous, dull to glossy, underneath sparsely to densely greyish tomentose by stellate hairs; base rounded to cuneate, decurrent, top bluntly acute to 1 cm acuminate; midrib prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves (8-)10-11 (-13) pairs, parallel, at an angle of 45-60°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin, prominent beneath, impressed above; reticulation subscalariform, obscure on both sides; petiole 1-3 cm, 2-3 mm ø, adaxially flat. Male inflorescence not known. Female rachis c. 15 cm, 2 mm ø; bracts and bracteoles ovate, c. 1-2 by 1 mm; ♀ flowers solitary, perianth 6-lobed, staminodes 12, rudimentary, styles 3, conical, c. 2 mm, more or less connate. Young infructescence 15-20 cm, 4-5 mm ø, densely tomentose by stellate hairs, carrying 15-20 young cupules. Ripe cupule sessile to ½-1 cm stalked, obovoid-globose, 5-7 cm through; wall woody, 2-3 mm thick, outside densely greyish tomentose, with 5-7 spiral or rarely concentric lamellae; base rounded-attenuate, top rounded with a small opening of 5-7 mm ø. Ripe fruit subglobose, 3-4½ cm long, 4-6 cm ø; wall woody, ½-1½ cm thick, for the greater part adnate to the cupule; free part (top) truncate-umbonate, densely yellowish brown tomentose, base rounded.
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