Tree with stout bole and much-branched spreading crown, height up to 20 m.; bark usually grey or blackish, deeply fissured and splitting into squarish or rectangular corky scales. Short-shoots with conspicuous cycad-like annular leaf-base scars; young shoots, petioles and flower-buds with ferrugineous pubescence of varying density. Petioles long, one-third to half length of leaf-lamina. Leaf-lamina oblong to ovate-oblong, 10–25 cm. long, 4.5–14 cm. wide, rounded at apex, base acute to broadly cuneate, margin thickened and undulate; upper and lower surfaces of mature leaf glabrescent or puberulous; lateral nerves 20–30 each side, regularly and closely spaced, slightly arcuate. Flowers fragrant. Pedicels up to 3 cm. long, puberulous to densely pubescent. Outer sepals lanceolate, 9–14 mm. long, 3.5–6 mm. wide, pubescent to ± floccose externally; inner sepals slightly smaller. Corolla cream; tube 2.5–4 mm. long, glabrous or pilose externally; lobes broadly ovate, 7–11 mm. long, 4.5–7 mm. wide. Filaments 7–12 mm. long; anthers ± lanceolate, up to 4.5 mm. long. Staminodes up to 8 mm. long. Style 8–15 mm. long. Mature fruit greenish, up to 6.5 cm. long and 4.5 cm. in diameter, subglabrous or with pubescence persisting in small patches, containing a sweet pulp surrounding the seed. Seed up to 5 cm. long, 3.5 cm. in diameter. Fig. 10.
