Trees up to 16 m tall, ca. 90 cm d.b.h. Branchlets reddish brown. Buds ca. 3 mm, minutely puberulent. Petiole slender, 1-2 cm, flat adaxially; leaf blade abaxially pale green and glaucous, adaxially dark green, elliptic, 6-10 × 2.5-4 cm, leathery, glabrescent, pinninerved, midrib and lateral veins brownish, prominent abaxially, flat adaxially, lateral veins in 4 or 5 pairs, reticulate veinlets dense, base cuneate, asymmetric, margin entire, apex acuminate, acumen sharp. Inflorescence shortly pedunculate, slender, 2-3.5 × to 1 cm, tomentose; peduncle to 0.5 cm, tomentose; bracteoles linear to triangular, ca. 3 × 1 mm, rusty tomentose. Pedicel 2-4 mm. Flowers greenish yellow, globose in bud, to 1.5 mm. Tepals 6, densely tomentose. Stamens 6, in 2 whorls, subsessile, slightly exserted, tomentose. Staminodes 6, ca. 0.5 mm. Style tomentose at base. Fruit yellowish brown, to 4 cm in diam., with persistent accrescent tepals at base when young; pericarp woody, ca. 2 mm thick; fruiting pedicel ca. 2 cm, thickened underneath fruit. Fl. and fr. Oct.
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