Trees to 25 m tall, 1 m d.b.h. Bark dark gray, exfoliating; branchlets white or reddish stellate pubescent, glabrescent; terminal bud glabrous, bud scales 3. Petiole slender, 2-3.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, 4.5-6 × 4-5.5 cm, abaxially greenish, hairy only in vein axils, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 4-5 pairs, base cordate or rarely obliquely truncate, margin serrate, teeth ca. 1 mm, pointed, apex acute, acuminate, truncate or slightly emarginate or 3-lobed. Cymes 3-20-flowered, slender, 3-5 cm, glabrous. Bracts on 1-3.5 cm stalk, narrowly band-shaped, 3-7 × 0.5-0.8 cm, adnate to peduncle for 1/3-1/2 of length, both surfaces glabrous. Pedicel 7-10 mm. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 5-6 mm, abaxially stellate puberulent. Petals 6-7 mm. Stamens 20, 5-6 mm; staminodes absent. Ovary canescent-tomentose; style ca. 5 mm, glabrous. Fruit ovoid-globose, 5-angled or obscurely angled, 5-8 mm, stellate tomentose; exocarp thickly leathery, fragile, indehiscent. Fl. Jul. 2n = 82.
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A large tree. It grows 15-30 m high and spreads 10 m wide. The bark is thin. The leaves are dark green and rounded. They have narrow tips and teeth along the edge. They turn yellow in autumn. The flowers are cream. They are in clusters.
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