53 (77) mm long, (2.8) 3.5 - 5 (6.8) mm wide, canaliculate above, rounded below, pubescent, 
indument as on twigs; leaf blades (25) 28 - 40 (60) cm long, (11.5) 14.5 - 22.5 (30) cm wide, 
elliptic to wide elliptic, apex acute, often apiculate, base obtuse to acute, inconspicuously 
tomentulose to puberulent above, densely tomentulose below, hairs rather wavy, appressed, 
whitish particules of wax also present, surface almost concealed in some areas by the two types 
of indument, hairs and wax often becoming sparse with age, pinninerved, midvein slightly 
impressed above, more or less tomentulose to glabrous, strongly raised below, tomentulose to 
glabrescent, secondary veins 9 - 12 pairs, rather flat above, sparsely tomentulose or glabrous, 
raised below, tomentulose (particularly on the sides), or glabrescent, tertiary veins flat above, 
glabrous, slightly raised below, tomentulose to glabrescent, domatia absent; inflorescence (9.5) 
15 - 25 cm long, axillary to leaves, cymose-paniculate, peduncle (2.5) 5.5 - 12.5 cm long, 
sparsely puberulent to glabrous, often fistulose, rachis rather glabrous, flower pedicel (2.2) 2.5 - 
3.5 (4) mm long, glabrous; flowers narrow urceolate, greenish, tepals 3 - 4 mm long, 2.1 - 2.6 
mm wide, ovate, glabrous outside, except for lower half margin area of inner tepals, sericeous 
inside, sometimes sparsely so on upper half in outer tepals, stamens of whorls I & II 2.2 - 3 mm 
long, filaments sericeous adaxially, (sparsely) tomentulose abaxially, anthers 1.2 - 1.7 mm long, 
glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia four, introrse, stamens of whorl III 2.3 - 3.1 mm long, 
filaments sericeous adaxially, sericeous abaxially, sparsely so on upper half, anthers 0.9 - 1.3 mm 
long, glabrous ad and abaxially, sporangia two, extrorse, although often one (or both) upper 
sporangia fertile but tiny, glands 0.6 - 0.8 mm long, at middle point of filament, sericeous at 
point of attachement adaxially, staminodes 1.5 - 2 mm long, filament densely sericeous ad and 
abaxially, head 1 - 1.2 mm long, cordate triangular, glabrous adaxially, sericeous abaxially at the 
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