Trees to 40 m tall, trunk low thick buttressed to 2 m, the young branches minutely tomentellous, glabrescent, conspicuously prominently lenticellate. Stipules ovate to lanceolate, acute, 3-5 mm, pilose on exterior, early caducous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong, 14-23 by 4-9 cm, glabrous above, with stomatal cavities filled with grey lanate pubescence beneath, shortly acuminate at apex, the tip 3-13 mm long, rounded to subcordate at base; midrib plane above, glabrous when mature except at base, prominent, glabrescent beneath; primary veins 23-35 pairs, erect, plane above, flattened and prominent beneath; secondary veins prominulous and parallel ± ladder-like beneath; petioles 9-17 mm long, thick, tomentellous, when young, glabrescent, eglandular or glandular. Inflorescences of large, spreading terminal panicles, 10-21 cm long by 7-12 cm broad, the rachis and branches yellow-grey tomentellous; bracts and bracteoles ovate, 3 mm long, early caducous. Receptacle campanulate, slightly gibbous, 3 mm long, densely grey tomentose on exterior; pedicels 1-3 mm long; calyx lobes ovate, acute, 1.5-2 mm long, unequal, grey tomentose. Petals white to bluish, lanceolate to spathulate, narrowed towards base, c. 2 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 8-10, with tooth-like staminodes opposite. Ovary pilose; style glabrous; stigma truncate. Fruit ellipsoid, 5-9 by 3-4 cm, epicarp densely lenticellate; mesocarp 1.5-2 mm thick; endocarp hard, thick, marbled, 7-13 mm thick, fibrous, densely lanate within.
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