Tree c. 5-6 m; branchlets brown-red when dry, glabrous, with sparse oblong-linear lenticels. Leaves narrow-oblong to oblong, ± shortly subacute-acuminate, broadly cuneate at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, pallid green or olivaceous when dry, shining above, dull and lighter-coloured beneath, (20-)25-45 by (6-)7-12(-13) cm; midrib impressed above specially towards the base, very prominent beneath, nerves 8-9 pairs, raised on both sides, reticulations rather dense and prominent; petiole stout, 2-3 mm thick, glabrous, (2½-)3-7 cm. Racemes spiciform, mostly solitary, slender, rather densely cinereous-subferrugineous-pubescent, 15-30 cm. Pedicels 1 mm. Calyx-lobes ovate, thin, 1.5 mm. Petals 5, ovate-oblong, thick, 2-2.5 mm; scale oblong, densely whitish-villose, 1.5 mm. ♂ Flowers: staminal column slender, glabrous, 2.5 mm. ♀ Flowers not seen. Fruit glabrescent, a little rough by many brown, corky lenticels; peduncle 5-6 mm long and 3 mm diam.
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