Tree up to 24 m high and 90 cm ø. Bark mottled dark grey and black, smooth. Branchlets brown or dark brown, puberulous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, 9-28½ by 5½-12cm; glabrous above except puberulous on the midrib and nerves below; papillae in prominent (often horse-shoe-shaped) groups separated by broad bands of veins and veinlets; base obtuse or cuneate; apex acute, acuminate, or cuspidate; nerves 18-24 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct below, obscure above; petiole (thickened) 1-3½ cm, puberulous or tomentose. Panicles axillary, up to 15 cm long; bracts lanceolate, 5 mm long; floral bracts deltoid, ¾-1¼ mm long. Flowers (young) yellowish, sessile, c. 5 mm long. Hypanthium 2½-3 mm long. Calyx lobes deltoid or triangular, 1-1½ mm long. Petals ovate, c. 3 by 1¾ mm, flat. Stamens 2½-3 mm; filaments brown, free; anthers ½ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ c. 2 mm. Disk 4-(or 5-)lobed. Ovary round and flat, slightly convex above, 1½-2 mm ø; style 2 mm; stigmas discoid. Abortive pistil minute in ♂, hairy. Drupe broadly ellipsoid, subglobose, 2¾-3 by 2-2½ cm, puberulous (indumentum c. 1/6 mm thick); apex acute or obtuse.
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