Tree up to 30 m high and 90 cm ø. Bark grey-brown, smooth. Branchlets tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 10½-21½(-47) by 4-9½(-12½) cm (on saplings up to 42 by 7½ cm), glabrous above, tomentose beneath; papillae on the lower surface often compact and obscure, sometimes distinct (powder-like); base obtuse or cuneate; apex acute or obtuse; nerves 14-25 pairs, veins (densely) reticulate-scalariform, prominent below, faint above; petiole (the lower ⅓-½ slightly thickened) 1½-3½ cm (on saplings up to 7½ cm), pubescent. Panicles terminal or axillary, up to 25 cm long, tomentose; bracts triangular, 2 mm long, floral bracts deltoid, c. ⅔ mm long. Flowers (♂) yellowish white, subsessile, 3½-5½ mm long. Hypanthium 1-1½ mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, l-1½ mm long. Petals elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, 2½-4 by 1-1 ½ mm, flat. Stamens 2-2½ mm; filaments brown, the lower ½-1½ mm laterally united with the petals; anthers ⅔-¾ mm. Disk obscurely 5-notched. Abortive pistil 0, replaced by a tuft of hairs. ♀ Flowers not seen. Drupe broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, 1½-3½ by 1¼-2½ cm, dark brown velvety (indumentum ½-1 mm thick); apex obtuse.
Primary forest, from the lowland up to 1350 m. Fl. Febr., July, Oct.-Nov.; fr. March, Dec.
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