Evergreen large trees. Branchlets thick. Bud scales imbricate, pubescent, becoming glabrate to glabrous. Petiole thick, 0.8-3 cm; leaf blade lustrous, oblong-oblanceolate, ovate-oblanceolate, or oblanceolate, 10-22 × 2.5-8.5 cm, leathery to thinly leathery, abaxially puberulent to glabrous, adaxially glabrous, midrib elevated abaxially, impressed adaxially, lateral veins 7-15 pairs, veinlets inconspicuous or slightly conspicuous on both surfaces, base cuneate or attenuate, apex acuminate, acutely to shortly caudate. Inflorescences arising from base of branchlet, to 20 cm, glabrous; peduncle 3-15 cm; involucral bracts greenish yellow or light reddish. Pedicel 0.4-1 cm. Perianth lobes glabrous to glabrate outside, pubescent inside. Stamens glabrous; filaments of 3rd series ca. 2.3 mm, glands stipitate; stipe barbate. Ovary and style glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit compressed globose, ca. 1.2 cm in diam., with persistent and reflexed perianth lobes. Fl. Jan-Apr, fr. Aug-Oct.
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