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| Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth. |
| Exudates : | Exudates resinous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 2.5-6 cm long, swollen at apex, minutely pubescent; lamina 13-30 x 6.5-16 (40 x 20 cm), elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded or subcordate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous or rarely with a few stellate hairs at the base and midrib beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 19 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in axillary panicles, hoary stellate pubescent; flowers ca. 3.3 cm across, pedicels 1.5-2.4 cm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, large, ca. 11 x 6 cm with persistent_calyx, lobes reflexed; seed 1. |