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| Habit : | Trees buttressed, up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth, lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, rusty tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1.3-3 cm long, slightly canaliculate above, rusty tomentose; lamina 11-27 x 5-12.5 cm, broadly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex obtuse to rounded, base acute, sometimes rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, drying reddish brown beneath, pubescent when young at least on nerves and midrib beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-15 pairs, strong slightly impressed above; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent, strong. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in sessile or subsessile clusters of umbels on old branches, rusty tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, to 2.5 cm long, on a deep obconic warted fruiting_perianth_cup; seed 1. |