Tree up to 21 m high and 50 cm Ø. Leaves spaced, spiral, coriaceous, broad-elliptic, or obovate, 10-17 by 5½-9½ cm; glabrous above; lower surface sparsely puberulous, glabrescent; papillae distinct, covering the lower surface, except the midrib, nerves, veins, and veinlets, usually surrounding the endings of veinlets and arranged in groups; base cuneate, sometimes unequal; apex obtuse, shortly and abruptly acuminate, or mucro-nate, rarely emarginate; nerves 10-15 pairs, conspicuous below, distinct above; veins reticulate, some transverse to the nerves; petiole 1½-5 cm. Panicles terminal and axillary, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, up to 28 cm long; lateral branches obliquely ascending, up to 15 cm; bracts lanceolate, ½-2¼ mm; pedicels c. ⅓ mm. Flower-buds ± oblong. Flowers yellowish white. Calyx lobes triangular, ⅓-½ mm long. Petals imbricate, ovate-oblong, c. 2 by 1 mm, glabrous, with several faint, longitudinal veins. Stamens 1½-2 mm; anthers oblong, ½-⅔ mm. Imperfect or sterile stamens in ♀ ¾-1 mm. Disk shallowly dish-shaped, ¾-1¾ mm Ø, puberulous above. Ovary conical, c. 1 mm Ø, densely pubescent; styles c. ¾ mm long. Drupe (very young) ovoid, densely pubescent, with a stalk-like hypocarp.
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