Medium-sized or large tree. Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule and petiole shortly densely fuga-ceously to persistently gold-brown pubescent; sparsely so on leaf beneath. Twig 4-6 by 2-3 mm ø apically, compressed, becoming smooth; stipule scars to 3 mm long, to 1.5 mm thick at base, strongly falcate, descending. Bud to 10 by 4 mm, hastate, subacute, ^ usually hidden by stipules. Stipule to 6 by 1.5 £m glabrescent, hastate, subacute, somewhat persistent. Leaves 11-24 by 4-9 cm, elliptic to narrowly ovate, ± thinly coriaceous, with broadly cuneate to subcordate base and to 1.5 cm long deltoid acumen; nerves 10-20 pairs, slender, curved, at 50°-70° but to 90° at base; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, diagonal to nerves; midrib prominent and terete beneath, ± applanate and narrow above; petiole 1.5-2.3 cm long, slender. Panicle to 24 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, compressed; singly branched, the branchlets long, bearing to 15 distichous flowers; bracts to 15 by 7 mm, lanceolate, acute, glabrous to pubescent, fugaceous; bracteoles to 10 by 8 mm, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous to pubescent, subpersistent. Flower bud to 10 by 3 mm, linear, subacute. Calyx glabrous or pubescent outside; lobes subequal, linear, subacute. Petals deep pink, hardly contorted, long, linear-lanceolate, sparsely pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, the innermost 5 slightly the longest; filaments broad, united in a ring round the ovary, tapering abruptly distally; appendage to connective many times length of anther, reaching to style apex. Ovary subglobose, surmounted by a long narrow style and stylopodium about twice its length, the latter 2 distended in the distal half; entirely glabrous. Fruit calyx glabrescent; 3 longer lobes to 28 by 3.5 cm, coriaceous, narrowly spatulate, narrowly obtuse, to 2.3 cm broad above the to 1.5 by 2.5 cm broadly ovate saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 17 by 1.2 cm, subequal, linear, similar at base. Nut to 2.3 cm long and broad, broadly ovoid, shortly evenly pale yellowish buff pubescent; style remnant to 2 mm long, slender, acute.
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A tree. It grows 50 m tall. The trunk can be 125 cm across. It has small buttresses. The leaves are simple and alternate. They are narrowly oval and 11-24 cm long by 4-9 cm wide. They are thinly leathery with 10-20 pairs of secondary veins. The flowers are yellowish-pink and 3 cm across. They are in groups in the axils of leaves and at the ends of branches. The fruit is a broadly oval nut 2.5 cm long. They are green to yellow or red with pale yellow hairs. There are 3 longer calyx lobes that are narrowly spoon shaped and 28 cm long by 3.5 cm wide. and then 2 shorter lobes.
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