Large spur-buttressed tree; wood pale yellow. Young branchlets silvery-or golden-reddish-sericeous, retaining some indumentum for a considerable time. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, spirally arranged along the branchlets, at first sericeous becoming nearly glabrous above or more frequently retaining some appressed hairs especially near the base of the midrib, densely appressed-pilose or appressed-pubescent beneath, often minutely verruculose above and pellucid-punctate, sometimes opaque, broadly obovate, obovate, obovate-ellptic or narrowly elliptic, 5-12 by 2½-5½ cm, apex very variable, cuneate at the base; nerves 7—13 pairs often rather closely spaced; petiole appressed-pubescent or appressed-pilose, 1-2 cm. Flowers sessile, white, in axillary spikes, 7-13 cm long, rhachis sericeous. Bracts pilose to nearly glabrous, filiform, 2-2½ mm. Lower receptacle sericeous, 1½-2 mm long (3-3½ mm in some older flowers but the fruit may have started to grow); upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes sericeous or sparsely appressed-pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside, ovate-triangular, 1.5 by 1 mm. Filaments glabrous, 3-4 mm; anthers ½ mm long. Disk pilose. Style glabrous, 5 mm. Fruit red or pink, at first sericeous eventually sparsely appressed-pubescent, elliptic to suborbicular in outline, much flattened, 2-3 by 2-2½ cm, usually beaked, rather obscurely longitudinally circumalate, showing in cross-section a very irregular mass of scleren-chyma surrounded by large, irregular air-spaces.
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