Tree 15-20(-40) m high; buttresses plank-like, up to 2 m high; bark whitish-grey to yellowish-brown, rough; branches stout, glabrous, with very large leaf-scars; branchlets densely ferrugineous-pubescent. Leaves borne in pseudo-whorls at end of branchlets, elliptic-oblong or oblong, dark green brown when dry, shining, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, ferrugineous-pubescent on the midrib and rather laxly pilose beneath especially along the nerves, rather sharply and abruptly acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to ± rounded at the base, entire or obscurely repand in the upper portion, 14-30 by 6-15(-20) cm; nerves (8-)10-12 pairs, prominent, reticulations distinct, rather lax; petiole 3-8 cm. Stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 6 mm. Racemes ferrugineous-puberulent, up to 10 cm. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2-3, green-yellow. Calyx glabrous, lobes c. 3-4 by 2-3 mm. Petals elliptic-ovate, obtuse, c. 4 by 2.5-3 mm; scale 3 mm. ♂ Flowers: filaments 2.5 mm; anthers 2 mm. ♀ Flowers: ovary ovoid, pubescent. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, green, c. 2 cm diam., 3-seeded; pericarp coriaceous.
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A tree. It grows 25-33 m tall. It has buttresses about 2 m high. The bark is rough and cracked. The leaves are clustered at the ends of the branches. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves.
Primary or old secundary forest in level or hilly, never inundated localities, 5-100(-500 m in the Philippines), apparently rather common occasionally, but mostly growing scattered or being fairly rare. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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