Tree 10-20 m, 20-30 cm ø; bark greyish brown, smooth to flaky. Branchlets initially densely ful-vous-tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs, later subglabrous, greyish, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid, 2-3 by 2 mm, scales ovate. Stipules linear-acute, 2-3 by ½ mm, caducous. Leaves thick-coriaceous, (6-)9-12(-16) by (3-)4-5(-8) cm (index 2-3), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces more or less discolorous, above glabrous, more or less glossy, greyish green, underneath densely greyish tomentose with adpressed, stellate hairs; base rounded and abruptly acute to cuneate, margin recurved, top bluntly to sharply acute; midrib prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves 6-8 pairs, subparallel, at an angle of 45-50°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, lax, subscalariform, obscure on both sides; petiole ½-1 cm, 2 mm ø, thickened and rugose at base, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male, androgynous or mixed, densely yellowish brown to fulvous tomentose by stellate hairs; bracts and bracteoles ovate acute, ½-1 by ½ mm. Male flowers (seen on the upper part of an androgynous rachis) solitary, perianth 6-lobed, stamens 12, filaments 2½-4 mm long, anthers 0.35 mm long, pistillode subglobose, c. 2 mm ø. Androgynous rachis 15-20 cm, 2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, perianth 6-lobed, staminodes 12, well developed and exceeding the perianth, styles 3, conical, ⅔-1 mm. Ripe cupule subsessile, sub-hemispherical to depressed obovoid-globose, 3-4½ cm long, 5-6 cm ø, base attenuate-rounded, top truncate with an opening of 2-3 cm ø; wall woody, c. ½ cm thick, outside with 8-10 concentric lamellae, 5-6 of which on the truncate top, densely greyish brown tomentose by short stellate hairs, subglabrescent. Ripe fruit subhemisphe-rical to depressed-obovoid-globose, 3-4 cm long, 4-5 cm ø; wall woody, ruminate, ½-1½ cm thick, for the greater part adnate to the cupule; top convex, depressed-umbonate at the centre, densely reddish brown tomentose, base rounded.
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