Large tree. Young twigs, petioles and leaves below sparsely pubescent (West coastal Malaya) or glabrous (E. coast), panicle and parts of perianth exposed in bud densely persistently pale brown pubescent, ovary caducously so. Twig c. 3 mm ø, ribbed, pale to dark brown; stipule scars pale, horizontal, persistent. Bud c. 4 by 3 mm, ovoid; stipule to 12 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 7-15 by 3-6.5 cm, elliptic to ovate, coriaceous, +-densely pale purplish stellate lepidote beneath; base cuneate (if ∞-nerved) or obtuse to subcordate (if few-nerved); acumen to 1 cm long, tapering; nerves 10-20 pairs, stout and prominent beneath, evident above, ascending, the basal pair frequently branching laterally; tertiary nerves scalariform, sinuate, evident on both surfaces; midrib prominent beneath, obscure and depressed above; petiole 9-12 mm long, stout. Panicle to 6 cm long, c. 3 mm ø, stout, terminal or axillary, short, congested. Flower buds to 6 by 4 mm, ovoid-lanceolate; sepals lanceolate, the 2 inner slightly the smaller, acuminate; petals yellow, tinged purplish at base; stamens in 3 unequal verticils; filaments short, compressed, tapering; anthers oblong, the outer loculi sparsely setose; appendage hardly exceeding anthers, stout; style filiform, ± twice length of the ovoid ovary. Fruit pedicel to 7 mm long, to 3 mm ø, expanding into the receptacle; calyx lobes to 12 by 3 mm, subequal, narrowly lorate, acute, becoming reflexed; nut to 3 cm ø, subglobose.
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