Young twig, leaf bud, stipule (outside, glabrous within), petiole and inflorescence shortly densely evenly persistently pale ocherous tomentose. Twig to 12 by 5 mm ø apically, compressed, becoming terete, smooth, amplexicaul; leaf scars large, elliptic, conspicuous. Bud to 9 by 0.8 cm, linear, acute, pale cream-brown. Stipule to 15 by 2.5 cm, linear, subacute, caducous. Leaves alternate, 30-50 by 16-24 cm, subchartaceous, oblong-elliptic, silvery to white below, base subcordate, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate; nerves 28-36 pairs, dense, straight, curved towards the margin, not silvery, with semi-persistent interneural plicate folds; tertiary nerves slender, densely scalariform, diagonal to nerves; midrib stout, rounded beneath, slightly raised above; petiole 3-5 cm long, terete. Panicle to 16 cm long, terminal or axillary, doubly or trebly branched; branches alternate, branchlets cymose; bracts to 4 by 2.5 cm, ovate, acute, cupped, amplexicaul, caducous, densely shortly tomentose out-side. Petals oblong, obtuse. Stamens subequal; filaments shfrrt, deltoid; anthers narrowly oblong, the inner pollen sacs somewhat the shorter; appendage prominent, tapering, c. 1/2 length of anther. Ovary conical, shortly pubescent, tapering into a prominent narrowly cylindrical stylopodium. Fruit subsessile; calyx puberulent (more densely so at base), glabrescent; 3 longer lobes to 22 by 1.8 cm, spatulate, brittle, subacute, tapering to 6 mm broad above the to 16 by 8 mm elliptic shallowly saccate base; fused at the base to form an up to 8 mm deep, to 1 cm broad, cup at the pedicel; 3 shorter lobes to 12 by 0.7 cm, linear, unequal, tapering to 3 mm above the to 5 mm broad and long more prominently saccate base. Nut to 2.5 by 1.2 cm, ellipsoid, densely buff tomentose; style remnant to 6 mm long, linear.
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