Trees to 25 m tall, the young branches densely brown lanate and pilose, lenticellate. Stipules caducous (not seen). Leaves rigidly coriaceous, elliptic, 9-21 by 6.5-12 cm, glabrous and shiny above when mature, lanate when young, with conspicuous stomatal crypts filled by lanate pubescence beneath, broadly apiculate at apex, rounded to broadly subcuneate at base; midrib ± plane above, prominent beneath; primary veins 14-16 pairs, plane or slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, arcuate near margins, secondary venation parallel and forming a ladder-like reticulum; petioles 10-12 mm long, densely ferrugineous lanuginose when young, eglan-dular. Inflorescences of axillary little branched small panicles or racemes, to 3 cm long, the rachis and branches densely appressed tomentellous; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Receptacle campanulate-cupu-liform, 3-4 mm long, appressed tomentellous on exterior; pedicels 1.5 cm long; calyx lobes triangular, acute, 1.5 mm long, tomentellous. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 4 by 6 cm diam.; epicarp densely lenticellate; mesocarp fleshy, 2 mm thick; endocarp woody, very hard and thick, marbled, densely lanate within.
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