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| Habit : | Large evergreen trees, buttressed, up to 40 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish white smooth when young later flaky. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets covered by golden brown peltate_scales. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole terete, peltate_scales, 1.5 cm long; lamina 7.5-16 (-25.5) x 2.7-6.2 (-7.6) cm, narrow oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex slightly acuminate, base rounded-retuse, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous and smooth above, lower surface covered by peltate_scales; midrib canaliculate above; secondary and tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers covered by golden brown scales, clustered on older branches. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, echinate, globose, to 12.7 cm across, 5-valved; seeds brown, many. |