Tree to c. 10 m high, with a spreading canopy; bark grey, nondescript; shoots, leaves heavily tomentose with rusty golden brown (ferrugineous), long base (6–8 cell) T-shaped hairs with long arms. Cotyledons 2, opposite, angular-obovate, c. 20 mm long and 9 mm wide. Seedling leaves immediately alternate, elliptic variable in size, angular obovate with a suggestion of lobbing. Adult leaves: lamina asymmetrical, 90–125 mm long, 35–46 mm wide, glossy mid-green/yellow, c. 10 mm drip tip, xeromorphic/thick, bullate, both surfaces glabrescent; c. 7 + secondary veins, interveinal tissue not bullate; petiole 20–30 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, almost sessile, mostly umbels of triads; flowers goblet shaped. Sepals 3 mm long, cohering basally, ovate-triangular, densely hairy. Petals 12–14 mm long, linear, trinerved, forming a tube for 10 mm then recurving by about 4 mm, margins hairy; white. Male flowers: filaments adnate to petal joins at anthesis, thick stout, about twice the length of the anthers; anthers exserted, sagittate with a deep sinus, yellow. Pistil: underdeveloped; style almost absent in bud, later to 3 mm long with a knobby stigma, ovary very thin and flat , to 4 mm long with a basal nectary; densely hairy. Female flowers: with stamens not exserted past the stigma. Pistil with a stipitate ovary, placentation meeting but not cohering; very hairy. Fruit eventually dehiscent, 14–15 mm long, 12–14 mm diam., prominently stipitate with a thick basal disc and nectary with lobing persisting, obovoid/pyriform, orange then brown, bullate, endocarp yellow. Seeds numerous, 4–5 mm long, angular, red-brown, glossy, cohering.
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