Small to medium-sized tree, height up to 25 m.; branchlets glabrous; terminal bud and very young shoots with resinous exudate.. Petioles robust, 1.5–4 cm. long, glabrous.. Leaf-lamina elliptic or elliptic-oblong to obovate-oblong, 10–29 cm. long, 3.5–9.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, apex rounded to emarginate, sometimes shortly acuminate, cuneate; upper surface dark green and glabrous with raised lateral nerves and vein reticulum, lower surface silvery-grey or whitish with indumentum of very small closely appressed regularly arranged hairs, with (16-) 18–22 raised and very prominent primary lateral nerves on each side.. Young flower-buds with resinous exudate.. Flowers fascicled in axils of current or recently fallen leaves, usually 6–8 per axil.. Pedicels 2–6 mm. long, stout, with dense pale brown indumentum.. Calyx-lobes fused for ± 2 mm. at base; outer lobes elliptic-oblong, up to 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, with dense pale silvery-green indumentum externally; inner lobes smaller and less hairy.. Corolla white or greenish-white; tube cylindrical, up to 6 mm. long; lobes trifid; outer segments linear-oblong, up to 5 mm. long; median segment spathulate, 6 mm. long.. Filaments up to 5 mm. long; anthers up to 2.5 mm. long; staminodes narrowly ligulate, up to 4 mm. long, apex laciniate with 2 (or sometimes more) long delicate processes.. Ovary subglobose; style long and tapering, up to 1.4 cm. long, glabrescent; stigma simple.. Young fruits with short thick pedicels, subglobose, with very short pale mealy indumentum rubbing off with age; style persistent, conspicuous.. Mature fruits not seen.
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A medium sized forest tree. It grows 25 m tall. The trunk is fluted at the base. There is gum from the young shoots. The bark is brown and has grooves. The leaves are leathery. They are clustered at the ends of branches. They are 25 cm long and widest near the tip. They are dark green above and silvery white underneath. There are 18-22 clear veins on each side. The stalk is 4 cm long. The flowers occur in groups of 2-4. They are beside the leaves. They are small and white to green. The fruit is a rounded berry. It is white and powdery and hairy. The flesh contains about 9 seeds.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in lowland forest. It Tanzania it grows between 1,100-1,600 m above sea level.
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Lowland rainforest and riverine forest at elevations up to 1,600 metres.
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