In general small buttressed tree, up to 36 m by 40 cm ø. Bark greyish white, fissured. Branchlets terete. Leaves coriaceous, greyish waxy above, pale olivaceous beneath by a dense cover of minute unicellular papillae, ovate-, sometimes elliptic-oblong, 11-17 by 5-10 cm; base obtuse or rounded; apex acute to short-acuminate, usually damaged in the herb.; margin cartilaginous and slightly recurved; nerves 7-9 pairs, obliquely curving and ascending; petiole 1-2 cm, almost terete, not grooved above; blade sometimes subpeltate. Panicles up to 21 cm long, 1 (—2—3) in an axil. Peduncle very short, sometimes up to 6 cm. Pedicels 8-15 mm. Flowers yellowish, large, c. 18 mm ø. Calyx almost as large as the disk, slightly lobed, lobes round. Petals reniform, c. 6 by 8½ mm, entire, the appendage at the base inside, small, sometimes obscure. Disk ± orbicular, slightly convex towards the center near the ovary, 7-9½ mm ø, obscurely 5-lobed. Stamens inserted near the ovary; filaments c. 2.5 mm; anthers ellipsoid or slightly ovoid, 1.5 by 1 mm, slightly apiculate. Ovary emerging c. 2 mm from the disk, narrowed towards the apex; ovules 16 in each cell.
Dryland forests, on hill slopes, and limestone cliffs, from the lowland up to 450 m.
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