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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets flat, stellately tawny tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule caducous; petiole 3-12.5 cm long, terete, stellately tomentose, swollen at both ends; lamina 8-25 x 6.5-20 cm, broadly ovate to orbiculate, apex acute to acuminate, base peltate or subpeltate, usually entire or trilobed when young, coriaceous, densely white stellate tomentose beneath; 3-5_nerved_at_base; tertiary_nerves nearly horizontal percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in axillary or terminal panicles, stellate tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, echinate with soft wooly spines; seeds 6. |