Tree up to 13 m high and 25 cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present up to 1 m high. Branchlets light brown, tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, 19-35 by 6½-10cm; glabrous above except the pubescent midrib, tomentose beneath especially dense on the midrib and nerves; papillae distinct on the lower surface; base rounded or slightly subcordate; apex acuminate, sometimes cuspidate; nerves 20-35 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct beneath, faint above; petiole ½-2½ cm, tomentose. Panicles terminal, up to 30 cm long, tomentose; bracts ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 3-4 mm long; floral bracts deltoid, ⅓ mm long. Flowers (♂) sessile, 3½ mm long. Hypanthium ¾-l mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, ½-¾ mm long. Petals elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 2-3 by ¾-l mm, flat. Stamens 1¼-1¾ mm; filaments brown, free; anthers ½ mm long. Disk 5-lobed. Abortive pistil 0 in ♂, replaced by a tuft of hairs. ♀ Flowers not seen. Drupe globose or subglobose, 2¾-3 cm ø, rusty-pubescent (indumentum very thin); apex rounded.
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