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| Habit : | Tall trees, up to 50 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, densely yellowish tomentose with annular scar formed by fallen stipules. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules ovate-lanceolate, densely yellowish hirsute, glabrous within, 1.8 cm long, caducous; petiole to 4.5 cm long, stellate tomentose; lamina 20.5 x 15 cm, broadly-elliptic to ovate, apex shortly acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire or crenate, glabrous above, stellate pubescent beneath, coriaceous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 13-16 pairs, strong, nearly parallel, abruptly curved at margin; tertiary_nerves percurrent, nearly parallel, oblique to midrib. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence racemes; flowers white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Nut, to 2.5 cm across, enclosed in 5 winged fruiting_calyx tube; calyx_lobes_accrescent, 2 larger and 3 shorter, reticulate; seeds 1-2. |