Tree 25 m. Innovations, leaf bud, lower surface of immature leaves and flowers with minute rust-coloured stellate hairs 0.1-0.3 mm. Leaves thinly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, 4-10 by 1.5-3.5 cm, papillose below, lateral nerves 10-15 per side, faint, venation almost invisible. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers: pedicel 3 mm, bracteole broadly rounded, caducous, apical; buds ovoid, 3.5 mm long. Fruits solitary or paired, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2 by 1.5 cm, hairs bright rust-coloured, mealy, 0.1-0.2 mm; pericarp ± woody, 2-3 mm thick; seeds 1.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 5 by 3 mm, bracteole scar subapical.
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