A big tree to 60 m tall and 60 cm diam.; twigs glabrous; stipules glabrous, up to 4 cm long, sometimes long silky on the inner margin. Leaves rather dark reddish brown, darker above than beneath, glabrous, elliptic, thin coriaceous, 5-13 by 2.5-6 cm; acumen 3-10 mm; base cuneate; midrib prominent below; nerves in 8—12(—15) pairs, much prominent below, slightly less so above, meeting in an intramar-ginal vein; reticulation rather densely and prominently netted on both surfaces, secondary nerves 2-c. 4 about parallel with the nerves starting from the midrib and rather obvious from the lesser veins, the alveoles near the midrib oblong, the longest diameter parallel with nerves, the larger alveoles filled with the smaller ones of which the veins are less prominent. Petiole 6-13 mm. Brachyblast glabrous, 2.5-4 cm long, very slender; pedicel absent. Only one pair of spathaceous bracts. Outer tepals 3, 15-27 mm by c. 5 mm; inner tepals 6, about as long by 5-10 mm. Stamens 7-10 mm long, the 1-1.5 mm long connective appendage not included; gynophore absent; carpels glabrous, up to c. 15. Fruits with len-ticels on the ripe carpels, often distorted by abortive carpels, mostly less than 10 carpels, sometimes only 1, fertile; scars of perianth and stamens along c. 2(-3) mm of the torus.
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