Tree 18 m, 45 cm Ø. Twigs densely spreadingly pubescent to tomentose. Leaves acuminate, with acute to rounded base and dentate margin, sparsely pubescent above and beneath, elliptic to obovate, 8-20 by 3-8 cm; nerves 7-12 pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 5-10 mm. Flowers in a basally branched spike to 5 cm long, becoming longer in fruit; axis sparsely brown hairy. Bracts and bracteoles persistent, spreadingly hairy, c. 2 and c. 1½ mm respectively. Calyx divided into glabrous c. 1 mm long lobes, the lobes tomentose. Corolla c. 2½ mm. Stamens c. 10 to 60. Disk glabrous or pilose. Ovary glabrous, c. ¾ mm high; style glabrous, c. 1 ½ mm. Fruit ampulliform, c. 6 by 4 mm, stone ampulliform with globose, lengthwise grooved belly and narrow cylindrical neck, 1-celled. Seed 1, filling the whole stone, with the embryo twice curved.
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