Tree 10-24 m, buttresses 40-60 cm; branchlets appressed-pilose, soon glabrescent; innovations densely ferrugineous-tomentose. Leaves oblong-to ovate-elliptic, abruptly short-acuminate, +-rounded to acute at the base, entire or shallow-crenulate, glabrous or laxly appressed-pilose beneath on midrib and nerves, shining above, dull beneath, brownish when dry, 15-33 by 5-10 cm; petiole ± pilose, 1.5-2 cm. Panicles lax, composed of spike-like racemes of spaced flowers; rhachis ± densely dilutely ferrugineous-or grey-tomentose, 15-25 cm. Pedicels c. 1 mm. Calyx-lobes elliptic, 2 by 1.5 mm, nearly glabrous outside, white to greenish-white. ♂ Flowers: stamens 8; filaments of the longer ones c. 2.7 mm. ♀ Flowers: ovary oblong, densely subferrugineous-tomentose. Capsule nearly trigonous when young, later oblong to subglobose, attenuate at the base and the apex, densely subferrugineous-tomentose, green to greyish-purplish when fresh, 0.8-1 by 0.5 cm, 1-(rarely 2)-seeded, very shortly peduncled. Seed 6-7 mm long.
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