Tree 16-40 m high, the bole up to 70 cm diameter, buttresses absent. Twigs sparsely to densely pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves with petiole 0.9-1.7 cm and blade subcoriaceous to coriaceous, 5-11 by 2.5-5.8 cm, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rarely broadly or narrowly elliptic, with the base acute or rarely somewhat truncate and the apex acute or rarely obtuse; indumentum in mature leaves sparse or absent, and minute glands occasionally present beneath; in young leaves, indumentum sometimes dense and woolly, red-brown; margin crenulate to crenate; secondary veins in 15-20 pairs, generally evenly spaced, prominent beneath. Stipules 0.9-1.5 cm long, broad at base (2-5 mm) and tapering to a narrow tongue 1.5-2 mm wide, rounded at apex, with dense adpressed in-dumentum on abaxial surface. Inflorescence usually false-terminal, the apical bud aborted, dormant or vegetative; sometimes lateral axes also terminating in a dormant bud or young vegetative growth; median axes up to 11 cm long by 4 mm diameter, bearing up to 4 pairs of major lateral branches; indumentum of short, adpressed to erect or woolly hairs on axes and abaxial surface of bracts. Flowers bisexual or rarely male (?), 4-5 mm diameter; (4-or) 5-merous (except for gynoecium); subsessile or the pedicel 1-2 mm long; calyx lobes 1.3-1.7(-2.5) by 1.1-1.6(-2.7) mm, outer surface somewhat hirsute; petals 1.2-1.6 mm long, the basal part 0.8-1 mm plus teeth 0.4-0.6 mm; filaments 1.1-1.7(-2.3) mm long, anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, apiculate; disc lobes 0.3-0.5(-0.7) mm diameter; ovary 2-carpellate, half-embedded in hypanthium, somewhat flattened above, c. 1.5(-2) mm diameter by 0.7(-1) mm high (above hypanthium), upper surface densely hirsute, indumentum quickly shed as young fruit develops; styles up to 0.6(-1) mm long; ovules 2-4 per locule. Fruit spherical or slightly oblate, somewhat irregular, up to c. 2 by 2.2 cm; epicarp rough, with numerous pale, circular, warty makings.
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