Tree, c. 35 m, 130 cm ø; buttresses 1-2½ m tall; bark rough, grey. Branchlets initially densely brownish, stiff-pubescent, late glabrescent, smooth lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-globose, 2-3 by 1½-2 mm. Stipules linear-acute membranous, 7 by 1 mm, densely fulvous-tomentose by simple hairs. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 8-24 by 2-8 cm, entire and undulate or remotely serrulate in the upper part, base attenuate-acute, top sharply ½-1½ cm acuminate; above glabrous, underneath sparsely set with stiff, simple hairs, glaucous; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves 8-13 pairs, rarely opposite, at an angle of 45-60°, parallel, arcuating near the margin; reticulation scalariform, obscure on both surfaces; petiole slender, 1-2½ cm, terete or adaxially flat, sparsely pubescent. Ripe cupule shallowly cup-shaped, 0.7-1 cm high, 2-2½ cm ø, covering 1/6-1/5 part of the fruit, base attenuate-rounded, densely tomentose on both faces; lamellae free at the rim. Ripe fruit ovoid-conical, 1.8-2 by 1½-2 cm, densely sericeous, top acute, base concave.
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