Tree 20-27 m. Twigs subterete or bluntly angled, 3-5 mm diameter, late glabrescent, hairs (0.5-)l mm; older twigs somewhat longitudinally cracking, not flaking, (finely and) inconspicuously lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong or oblong(-lanceo-late), 12-21 by (3-)4-9 cm, base short-attenuate or rounded, apex acute(-acuminate); upper surface brown, lower surface grey-(or reddish) brown by dense (sub)persistent indumentum, hairs interwoven, scale-like, 0.1-0.2 mm, mixed with scattered variously sized emergent hairs, longly branched from the base, to l(-2) mm; not papillose; dots absent; midrib slender, ± raised above (sometimes in a groove), lateral nerves 23-27 per side, at 50-80° to the midrib, flat or sunken above, lines of interarching ± distinct, venation somewhat scalariform, ± sunken above, rendering the surface slightly bullate; petiole 8-15 by 3-4 mm, leaf bud 20 by 4-5 mm, hairs 1 mm long. Inflorescences (from infructescences) between the leaves or below, of the Knema-type: sessile, wart-like brachyblasts, 1-or few-flowered. Male and female flowers not known. Fruits subsessile, single, below the leaves, globose, 6-9 cm diameter, hairs dense, ± rough, dark brown, 0.5-1 mm; pericarp 6 mm thick; seeds subglobose, 5.5 by 5 cm, aril with narrow segments; fruiting pedicel 3-5 by 5 mm.
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A tree. It grows up to 27 m tall. It has a rusty covering on the twigs. The leaves are oblong and 14-20 cm long by 6-9 cm wide. They have brown hairs underneath. The leaf stalk is 1.3 cm long. The fruit is round and 6-9 cm across. It has brown hairs. The seed is round and 5 cm across. It has a strong smell.
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