Trees to 30 m tall, unbuttressed, the young branches tomentellous, glabrescent, inconspicuously lenticellate. Stipules caducous (not seen). Leaves rigidly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong ovate, 7.5-23 by 3-8 cm, those near to inflorescence much smaller than others, broadest below mid point, glabrous and shiny above, sometimes slightly bullate, the lower surface with stomatal crypts filled with pubescence, with 2 glandular areas at junction of midrib and petiole below, shortly and broadly acuminate at apex, the tip 3-17 mm long, rounded or subcordate at base; midrib plane or impressed for upper portion above, prominent and appressed pilose beneath when young; primary veins 13-20 pairs, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, slightly curved at margins only; secondary venation flattened or rounded, parallel; petioles thick, 3-10 mm long, grey-pilose pubescent, rugose, with 2 small glands on mid point of upper side. Inflorescences of narrow terminal panicles to 13 cm long, the rachis and branches tomentose; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, to 2 mm long, early caducous. Receptacle campanulate, slightly gibbous, 5 mm long, densely vil-lous-tomentose on exterior; pedicels c. 1 mm long; calyx lobes elongate triangular, 2-2.5 mm long. Petals spathulate. Stamens 6-8. Ovary densely villous. Style equalling stamens; stigma capitate. Fruit irregularly ellipsoid, 5 cm long, to 4 cm diam., tapered towards base almost into a stipe; epicarp densely lenticellate; mesocarp thin fleshy; endocarp thick, woody, marbled, lanate within.
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