Tree, c. 18-20 m, 40 cm ø. Indumentum of simple, brown, sericeous hairs. Young branchlets c. 1-272 cm ø, glabrescent. Leaves densely crowded at the very ends of branchlets, chartaceous, rather laxly hairy, above shiny, verruculose, glabrescent except on the main nerves, beneath persistently hairy, obovate-oblong, 12-31 by 5-12 cm, generally widest at about 3/4 of the length, top rounded or sometimes emarginate, base narrowly cuneate or sometimes decurrent, glandless; midrib prominent on both sides, densely hairy; nerves on both sides rather widely spaced, hairy, the upper 3 or 4 pairs arcuating towards the top but not anastomosing at the margin, connected by thin veins in a more or less scalariform pattern with some interconnections between them, domatia none; petiole 8-24 mm, densely to sparsely hairy, without glands. Spike axillary, c. 13-25 cm, lower c. 7-8 cm flowerless; densely hairy. Bracts ± obovate-oblong to ± linear, c. 3 mm. Flowers sessile, densely hairy, greenish yellow, fragrant. Part of the flowers, scattered in the inflorescence, with rudimentary style and somewhat smaller. In the bisexual ones, the lower receptacle (ovary) 3-6 mm; upper receptacle funnel-shaped, 2-3 by 3.5 mm. Calyx lobes deltoid, 2 mm, sparsely hairy inside. Filaments 9-11 mm, glabrous; anthers ⅔ mm. Disk sparsely set with rather lax hairs. Style simple, terete, 9-10 mm, glabrous. Ovules 2, pendulous.
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