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Habit : | Tall trees with plank buttresses, up to 40 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, mottled with grey and white. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; branchlets thick, with scars of fallen leaves, tomentose when young. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules ovate, slightly incurved, caducous; petiole 1.5-5 cm long, densely rufous tomentose when young, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 9-30.5 x 5-14 cm, broadly obovate, apex rounded to obtuse sometimes retuse, base narrow and obtuse, margin subentire or crenate-serrate, coriaceous, densely rufous tomentose when young, later hairs remains only on midrib and nerves; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 9-14 pairs, with hairy domatia in axils beneath; tertiary_nerves broadly percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or extra-axillary racemes, rufous tomentose; flowers white with laciniate petals; stamens many, anthers aristate. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, elliptic-oblong, to 5 x 3 cm; seed 1, compressed deeply tuberculate. |