Very tall buttressed tree with dark brown square-section fissured bark. Twig, panicle, petiole, bud, stipule and nervation beneath +-persistently scabrid rust pubescent. Twig c. 1.5 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, terete, becoming smooth. Bud to 1.2 by 1 mm, globose to ellipsoid, small. Stipule c. 6 by 3.5 mm, oblong-falcate, base obtuse or subcordate; caducous, more persistent in young trees. Leaves 7-10 by 3-4 cm, ovate, sometimes cream to brown lepidote beneath; base obtuse; acumen c. 1 mm long; short, acute; margin revolute; nerves 9-12 pairs, prominent beneath, at c. 40°-50°; tertiary nerves dense, scalariform, distinct; midrib prominent beneath, depressed above; petiole 1-1.5 cm long, slender. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, singly branched; branchlets to 2 cm long, bearing to 6 secund flowers; bracteoles to 2 by 2 mm, broadly oblong, obtuse, puberulent. Flower bud to 5 by 3 mm, ellipsoid, subacute. Calyx densely pubescent outside, glabrous within; lobes broadly ovate, subequal, obtuse; inner 2 lobes thinner towards margin, narrower at base, than outer 3. Petals shortly pubescent on parts exposed in bud, imbricate at base after opening forming a cup, spreading and contorted distally. Stamens 15, of 2 lengths the longest 5 exceeding the ovary; filaments broad, compressed, tapering, somewhat gibbous; anthers broadly oblong; appendage to connective longer than anthers, slender, puberulent towards apex. Ovary and stylopodium narrowly ovoid, with a band of short hairs towards the apex; style as long as ovary and stylopodium, slender, glabrous. Fruit subsessile, with prominent obconical receptacle; calyx puberulent or glabrescent; 3 longer lobes to 6 by 1.3 cm, spatulate, obtuse, to 3 mm broad above the to 4 by 4 mm somewhat tuberculate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 4.5 by 0.8 cm, otherwise similar. Nut to 2 by 0.7 cm, narrowly ovoid, densely pale rufous pubescent.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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