Tree (3-)15-20 m high. Bark brownish, fissured. Leaves spaced, spiral, chartaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rarely obovate-oblong, 5-8(-18) by 2-3½(-6½) cm, glabrous except sometimes with short, stellate hairs beneath; papillae distinct, rather uniformly covering the lower surface except midrib and nerves; base cuneate; apex obtuse, acute, sometimes shortly acuminate; nerves 5-10 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, flat above; veins reticulate, rather faint beneath, obscure above; petiole l-1½(-3) cm. Panicles terminal and/or axillary at the upper part of the twigs, 4-11 cm long, puberulous; lateral branches obliquely ascending, 3-7 cm; bracts triangular or ovate, ⅓-l mm long; pedicels 0 (♀ flower after falling leaving a stalk of 3-5 mm). Flower-buds globose. Calyx lobes triangular, c. ⅓ mm long. Petals imbricate, elliptic, 2-2¾ by 1-1½ mm, puberulous outside, with c. 1 longitudinal veins. Stamens c. 2 mm long; anthers ovoid, c. ½ mm long. Imperfect or sterile stamens in ♀ ¾-1¼ mm. Disk round, flat or slightly convex above, c. ¾ mm Ø in ♂ (c. 2 mm Ø in ♀), pilose above. Ovary subglobose, c. 1½ mm Ø, densely puberulous; styles ⅔ mm. Drupe depressed-globose, 2 cm long and wide, puberulous, glabrescent; apex apiculate; hypocarp 1½ by ¾-1¼ cm.
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