Tree, 10-30 m, 0.3-1 m ø; buttresses short, spreading, up to 0.7 m tall; bark smooth, mottled hooped, lenticels scattered in longitudinal rows. Branchlets densely stellate-tomentose, glabrescent, lenticellate; terminal bud ovoid-globose, c. 2 by 2 mm. Stipules linear-acute, c. 5 by 1 mm. Leaves thin-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 5-23 by 2-9 cm, entire or remotely serrulate in the apical part, base attenuate-acute or rounded, slightly asymmetrical, top rounded or bluntly acute; above glabrous, beneath densely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves 8-15 pairs, parallel, arcuating towards the margin, at an angle of 45-60°, reticulation distinct beneath; petiole 1-3½ cm, slender, terete or adaxially flat, densely stellate-tomentose, glabrescent. Male rachis 1½-3½ cm; bracts ovate-acute, 1-1½ by 1 mm; ♂ flowers: filaments hairy at base, 1-2 mm; anthers c. ½ by½ mm; pistillode replaced by a tuft of stiff hairs. Female rachis 1-1½ cm; bracts ovate-linear, 1-2 by ½-1 mm; ♀ flower: staminodes absent, styles slender, cylindrical, hairy at base, 1-2 mm. Young cupule ovoid-globose, 1½-2 cm through, top rounded or truncate, base attenuate-rounded, densely sericeous outside and densely brownish stiff-pubescent inside. Mature cupule deeply cup-shaped, 2-2½ cm through; base rounded, enclosing ½-⅔ part of the fruit; lamellae 6-8, rims thin, slightly recurved and denticulate. Fruit ovoid-conical, 2-3 by 2 cm, top acute or rounded, convex at base.
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