Tree to 15 m tall, bole often fluted at base, without buttresses; the young branches densely tomentellous, glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate. Stipules lanceolate, lateral, 13-37 mm long, up to 5 mm broad at base, persistent, conspicuously reticulate and densely tomentose on exterior. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to elliptic, 11-28 by 5.5-11 cm, glabrous above, densely lanate-arachnoid pubescent beneath, the pubescence completely obscuring reticulate nervation, but without stomatal crypts; finely acuminate at apex, the tip 3-13 mm long, rounded to sub-cordate at base; midrib plane and pubescent above, prominent beneath; primary veins 15-23 pairs, arcuate and anastomosing at margin, plane above, prominent beneath, pilose; petioles 5-8 mm, densely pale brown pilose, with 2-3 extremely prominent glands. Inflorescence of short little-branched terminal and axillary panicles to 5 cm long, sometimes borne on young woody branches, the rachis and branches densely pale-brown tomentellous; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, to 5 mm long, persistent. Receptacle campanulate, 3 mm long, pale brown tomentose on exterior; calyx lobes acute, ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm long, densely tomentose. Petals white. Fruit ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid, to 10 cm long by 3 cm broad; epicarp densely lenticellate, ridged when dry; mesocarp thin and fleshy; endocarp thick, hard.
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