Tree, c. 30 m, c. 90 cm ø; buttresses up to 2 m tall; bark scaly, peeling off profusely into small, rectangular pieces. Branchlets glabrous, lenticel-late; terminal buds ovoid-globose, 2-3 by 2 mm. Leaves pseudo-whorled, thick-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, 7-17 by 3-6½ cm, entire, base cordate to auriculate, apex rounded or bluntly acute; above glabrous, beneath sparsely minute-pubescent; midrib and nerves strongly prominent beneath, flattened to slightly impressed above, especially in the apical half; nerves 8-15 pairs, at an angle of 30-45° with the midrib, parallel arcuating; reticulation obscure, scalariform, dense; petiole ½-1 cm by 0.2 cm, tomentose, glabrescent, adaxially flat. Cupule cup-shaped, obconical-globose, pointed at base, covering ⅓-½ part of the fruit, 2-3½ cm high, 2½-4 cm ø; outside brownish sericeous, glabrescent; inside densely brownish stiff-pubescent; lamellae 10-12, thin, rims free, dentate, especially the lower ones. Fruit cylindrical-globose, 3-5 by 2-3 cm, sericeous, apex rounded or depressed, base convex or flat; umbo conical.
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