Medium-sized to large tree. Twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule, petiole, midrib on both surfaces and nerves beneath shortly evenly pale grey-brown pubescent. Twig c. 1.5 mm ø apically, straight, slender, frequently ribbed when young; stipule scars to 1 mm long, short, descending. Bud 1.5-2.5 by 1-2 mm, slightly compressed, ovoid to falcate, acute. Stipule to 7 by 3.5 mm, oblong, obtuse, caducous. Leaves variable in size, 9-18 by 2.5-8 cm, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, glabrous or greyish lepidote beneath, thinly coriaceous; base obtuse or cuneate; acumen 0.8-2 cm long, narrow; nerves 9-15 pairs, slender, rather straight, prominent beneath, at c. 40°-55°; tertiary nerves slender, densely scalariform, sinuate; petiole 1-1.5 cm long. Panicle to 10 cm long, terminal or axillary to ramiflorous, terete, drying angular; regularly singly branched, branchlets to 1.7 cm long, bearing to 5 secund flowers; bracteoles linear, shortly pubescent, fugaceous. Flower bud to 8 by 2 mm, narrowly lanceolate. Calyx shortly pubescent outside, glabrous within; lobes subequal, ovate, obtuse, the inner 2 somewhat narrower and thinner than the outer 3. Petals cream, pink towards base, linear, hardly contorted, shortly tomentose outside, glabrous within; stamens 30-40; filaments compressed at base, tapering, with a few long bristles; anthers oblong, glabrous, the outer cells larger than the inner cells; appendage to connective short, setose. Ovary and stylopodium conical to hour-glass shaped, densely pubescent; style short, glabrous. Fruit calyx shortly sparsely greyish buff pubescent, lobes subequal, to 2 by 1.8 cm (usually c. 1.5 by 1.4 cm), incrassate, orbicular, rotate. Nut c. 1 cm long and Ø, ovoid or globose; style remnant to 12 mm long, stout.
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A large tree. It grows about 60 m tall. The trunk is 130 cm across. The stem has resin. The branches are about 25-30 m above the ground. It can have buttresses 2.5 m tall. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are oblong to sword shaped and 9-18 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. They are thinly leathery with 9-15 pairs of secondary veins. The flowers are about 3 cm across. They are yellow and in groups in the axils of leaves or towards the ends of branches. The fruit are about 1 cm across. They are yellow-brown. They have 3 longer calyx lobes 10 cm long by 1 cm wide and 2 shorter lobes.
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