Large, buttressed tree. Panicles, parts of perianth exposed in bud and nut persistently buff puberulent; young twigs, midrib above, petioles and fruit calyx caducously so. Twigs c. 3 by 2 mm ø apically, ± compressed, becoming smooth, dark brown; stipule scars short, horizontal. Leaf bud small, ovoid, acute; stipule to 20 by 4 mm, +-persistent, lanceolate. Leaves 6-14 by 3-6 cm, narrowly obovate to oblong, subcoriaceous; base obtuse or broadly cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, turned down and frequently bent over on pressing; nerves 14-16 pairs, rather straight and only arching towards the ends, slender but distinctly elevated beneath, evident above as also the densely scalariform tertiary nerves and the midrib; petioles 7-11 mm long, slender. Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary, with to 1.5 cm long branchlets bearing to 5 secund flowers; bracteoles to 4 by 3 mm, oblong, concave, glabrous. Flower bud to 10 by 2 mm, lanceolate. Sepals ovate, the 3 outer acute, the 2 inner subacuminate. Petals cream. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; filaments lorate, tapering; anthers subglobose, becoming reflexed at least on the inner 2 verticils; appendage as long as anthers; ovary broadly ovoid, sericeous, crowned by an equally long filiform style. Fruit pedicel to 3 by 3 mm, +-impressed into the receptacle; 3 longer calyx lobes to 11 by 2.5 cm, broadly lorate-spatulate, subacute, c. 11 mm broad above the to 10 by 11 mm suborbicular saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 7 by 0.7 cm, linear-lanceolate, similar at base; nut to 16 by 11 mm, ovoid, apiculate.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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