Trees, up to 25 m tall, deciduous; branchlets tomentose or villous. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, deciduous; petiole 5-12 cm; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 10-15 × 8-14 cm, papery, abaxially villous, adaxially pilose along veins, base cordate, rarely broadly rounded, with 2 or 4 glands, apex acu-minate. Male inflorescences 6-25(-30) cm, densely villous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm. Female inflorescence 1.5-11 cm, often 1-flowered; peduncle to 3 cm, pilose. Female flowers: pedicel 1-9 mm; calyx 5-6 mm; ovary tomentulose; styles often 3, basally connate, 2-2.5 cm. Drupe globose, 2-4-locular, [1-]2-3.5 cm in diam., glabrous [or hairy]; exocarp thick and fleshy [or very thin]. Fl. Jan-Apr, fr. Jun-Dec.
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