Tall tree, height up to 50 m., with long straight ± fluted bole and buttressed base. Young shoots with dense ferrugineous pubescence; older branches blackish-brown and subglabrous. Petioles 1–2 cm. long, twisted, with ferrugineous or greyish-brown pubescence. Leaf-lamina elliptic to oblong or obovate-elliptic, 4–21.5 cm. long, 2–8.5 cm. wide, pellucid dots visible only in thin-textured sapling or youngest shade leaves, apex acute or rounded, base narrowly to broadly cuneate and sometimes decurrent with petiole, margin not or strongly inrolled; lower surface with varying density of ferrugineous pubescence, wearing away or stripping and becoming ± glabrous and with hairs on midrib and nerves only; lateral nerves 10–25 each side. Flowers fascicled in current or fallen leaf axils; pedicels 5–10 mm. long, densely pubescent. Sepals 4 or 5, ovate to ± oblong, up to 6 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, pubescent externally with hairs of variable density and size. Corolla cream; tube up to 6.5 mm. long; lobes ± ovate or rounded, up to 2 mm. long. Free part of filaments up to 1.5 mm. long. Staminodes subulate or sometimes expanded and petaloid, up to 1.5 mm. long. Style up to 6.5 mm. long. Fruits greenish, narrowly ellipsoid, up to 4 cm. long, apex with short ± 1 cm. long beak, pubescent or puberulous with short ferrugineous hairs. Seed ovoid to ± narrowly ellipsoid, up to 3 cm. long; testa shiny brown; scar lateral, pale, elliptic. Fig. 4.
