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Tree 7(–15) m tall, ± 30(–60?) cm diameter at breast height; bole cylindrical, lacking buttresses, bark brownish with longitudinal fissures; stems of flowering branches terete or slightly ridged, 2–3.5 mm diameter, white to brown, black scurfy with stellate hairs, glabrescent, internodes 0.5–3(–5) cm long. Leaves elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, 7–20(–30) cm long, 2.8–7.5(–13) cm wide, apex short to long-acuminate, acumen 10–15(–28) mm long, 4–5 mm wide, base attenuate and abruptly rounded-truncate or obtuse, lateral nerves 4–9 on each side of the midrib; petiole 0.5–5(–12) cm long; stipules 5–7 mm long, 1 mm wide. Inflorescence with bracts papery, broadly ovate to oblong, 1.5–8 mm long, 1–5 mm wide, apex truncate to mucronate, glabrous or densely velutinous. Flowers creamy-yellow, perianth outer surface densely golden-brown stellate-pubescent, with proximal tube short- or long-cylindrical, 4–11 mm long, 5–8(–20) mm wide, inner surface with thinly scattered patent, simple hairs; lobes 12–14(–22) mm long, 3–5(–10) mm wide, inner surface densely papillose, with a membranous margin ± 2 mm wide, glabrous. Female flowers with androgynophore 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous, carpels 8–30 in a globose mass ± 1 cm long, carpels oblong, 4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, densely white tomentose, stigmatic heads glossy, black. Male flowers with androgynophore 3–5 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, glabrous, staminal head shortly cylindrical, 3 mm long, 4 mm wide. Fruit red, densely but shortly tomentellous, with accrescent pedicel and androgynophore combined 1.5 cm long, stout; carpels obovoid or shortly ellipsoid-cylindrical, 1.4–3.5 cm long, 1.1–2.8 cm wide, with a wide raised ventral ridge, stipe (0.2–)0.8–1.5 cm long, 0.2–0.3 mm wide, rostrum 0.4–0.8 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm wide. Seed glossy black, ellipsoid, often faceted, 1–2.1 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm wide, hilum ± 1 cm diameter. Fig. 6, p. 47.