Tree up to 10 m high or sometimes a shrub; bark rough, dark brown to grey or black; young branchlets rusty-tomentellous or shortly rusty-tomentose. Leaves: petiole 2-4 cm long; blade mostly 5-15 cm long and 6-16 cm wide in our area, bilobed apically about one-eighth to one-third of the length of the leaf, densely reticulate and rusty-puberulous or -pubescent beneath; lobes each with 5 or 6 main veins. Stipules 3-6 mm long. Panicles usually alternately leaf-opposed and axillary along the branches, the male ones 5-19 cm long and the female 2-7 cm long. Calyx 0,8-1,5 (2) cm long, rusty-tomentose or -tomentellous. Petals white to pinkish, obovate, 1,2-2 (2,6) cm long, rugose or bullate, hairy on basal claw and outside of limb. Ovary 5-12 mm long, stigma sessile on the ovary. Pods woody, indehiscent, oblong or linear-oblong, mostly 13-20 cm long and 3-6 cm wide in our area, shortly ferruginous pubescent, on a stipe 2-3 cm long. Seeds obovoid to ellipsoid, someÂwhat compressed, dark brown to blackish, 7-9 mm long, 5-7 mm wide and 3-4 mm thick. Fig. 13.
