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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish brown, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”; branchlets terete with fallen leaf scars, lenticellate, rusty or greyish stellate tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 2.5 cm; lamina 7.5-10 x 5-7.5 cm, elliptic, folded boat-shaped, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base acute, with very shallow serrations, margin revolute, coriaceous, densely tomentose beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 9 pairs, branched towards margin; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence racemes, 5-10 cm long, ca. 10 flowered; pedicels 2 cm long, tomentose; petals cream, laciniate; anthers awned. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ovoid, fleshy, green, 1.8 x 1 cm; seed 1, oblong, endocarp stony, tuberculate. |