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| Habit : | Trees up to 18 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, stellate_scaly. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules linear, caducous; petiole 3-11 cm long, terete, stellate_scaly; lamina 7.5-15.5 x 3.8-10.5 cm, broadly-elliptic to ovate, apex acuminate, base retuse, margin entire, chartaceous, densely silvery stellate_scaly beneath, glabrous above; 1 to 2 pairs nerves arising from the base; midrib almost flat above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence racemes; flowers unisexual, monoecious, white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule obovoid, 2.5 cm long, brown tomentose, seeds 3. |