Tree ca 20 m high. Leaves with petioles 1-3 cm long; blades obovate or ellip-tic-obovate, acuminate, 10-22 cm long, 4.5-10 cm broad, glabrous above, rufous-sericeous-tomentulose beneath (the pubescence mostly appressea), the primary laterals 12-22 pair, prominently raised below, the secondary laterals (except the 9-3 most medial ones) subperpendicular to the primary laterals (although some-what sinuous), sometimes obscured beneath by pubescence, the reticulation sub-obscure. "Well-developed flowers unknown, but a very young flower has a stout pedicel 5 mm long, with 5 sepals and a 5-lobed corolla, the filaments attached at the level of the sinuses, the staminodes narrow, approximately triangular-lanceolate; an overmature flower has 5 deltoid-ovate very firm sepals about 9 mm long, the ovary parasitized, probably originally 2-loculate; fruit unknown"
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