Tree 20-30 m, c. 60 cm ø; bark smooth, grey. Branchlets initially densely yellowish brown tomentose by stellate hairs, soon glabrescent, greyish black, with dense minute lenticels; terminal buds ovoid-globose, 1-2 mm, scales ovate-acute. Leaves thick-coriaceous, (8-) 10-15(-18) by (2½-)4-6(-7) cm (index 2½-3 ⅓), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces more or less concolorous, above glabrous, glossy, underneath sparsely yellowish grey tomentose by stellate hairs; base rounded and abruptly acute to cuneate, margin recurved, top abruptly acute to sharply 1-2 cm acuminate; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, obscure and flattish above; nerves 7-10 pairs, subparallel, at an angle of 45-60°, arcuating but hardly anastomosing near the margin; reticulation fine, lax, subscalariform, obscure on both sides; petiole 1-2 cm, 1-2 mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male or androgynous, densely yellowish brown tomentose by short stellate hairs; bract and bracteoles ovate-acute 1-1½ by 0.7 mm. Male rachis 5-10 cm, 1 mm ø; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3-7, perianth 6-lobed, stamens 12, filaments 1-1½ mm, anthers 0.2-0.25 mm long, pistillode subglobose, c. 1 mm ø. Androgynous rachis 5-10 cm, 1 mm ø; female flowers in clusters of 2-5, perianth deeply 6-lobed, staminodes 12, rudimentary, styles 3, conical, c. 1½ mm, recurved. Cupule (not fully developed) sessile, ellipsoid-globose, 2-3 cm through; wall thinner than 1 mm, outside densely yellowish brown tomentose, with 7-10 more or less concentric, undulating, denticulate lamellae; base rounded, top truncate, with a small opening of less than 3 mm ø. Fruit (not fully developed) globose, 2-2½ cm through; wall thinner than 1 mm, for the greater part adnate to the cupule; free part (top) c 1 cm ø, rotundate, densely tomentose, base rounded.
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