Tree 10-25 m, branchlets red-brown when dry, apically appressed-subferrugineous-pubescent, elsewhere glabrous, striate; lenticels oblong, 1-1.5 mm; bark grey-brown, mottled with transversely oblong lenticels 3-4 mm. Leaves ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong to oblong, shortly and abruptly (1-1½ cm) acuminate, narrowed or rarely rounded at the base, coriaceous, upper surface olivaceous-green when dry, lower surface dull, pale, glabrous or mostly laxly covered with minute, pale-ferrugineous, appressed hairs with some longer bristlelike hairs or numerous shorter, appressed, ferrugineous hairs in the lower part of the midrib beneath, 12-20(-30) by 6-8.5(-12) cm; midrib flat or slightly impressed above, very prominent beneath, nerves 5-6(-7) pairs, subarcuate-ascend-ing and slightly raised above, prominent beneath, veins ± transverse, reticulations dense and rather prominent on both sides; petiole 2-3 mm diam., first dark ferrugineous-pubescent, glabrescent, 2-3(-4½) cm. Racemes solitary, rarely 2-3 fasciculate, male 15-20 cm, female half as long; rhachis stoutish, 1.5 mm diam., subdensely covered with brown, appressed hairs. Pedicels 2½-3½ mm. ♂ Flowers: calyx thin, rusty pubescent outside, with 3 ovate lobes 2.5 mm. Petals 5, oblong-lanceolate, 3 by 2½ mm. Staminal column glabrous. ♀ Flowers: staminodes apparently 0. Ovary obovoid, attenuate and angular at the base, contracted at the apex, ferrugineous-hirsute. Fruit globular, yellowish or dark greenish-brown, first dark velvety-brown, somewhat glabrescent, densely minutely tubercled, c. 3 cm diam.; pericarp rather thin, 1 mm diam.; peduncle c. 0.8 cm long, 2.5 mm thick, glabrous. Seeds 5-6, oblong, compressed, striate, c.1.8 cm long.
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