Tree 5–8 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole 1.5–3.5 cm long; lamina elliptic, 9–15 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, acuminate, with acumen 1.5–2 cm long. Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary, c. 1.5 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long (c. 2.5 mm long in fruit), nearly glabrous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals c. 1.2 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals c. 3.5 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures in c. distal 1/3. Fruit syncarpous, ovoid, 12–13 mm long, without stylar beak, sparsely pubescent at apex, otherwise glabrous; fruiting carpels without ruptured wall opening into locule; dried fruit as seen in medial transverse section with outer part of pericarp less than 0.5 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp but apparently lacking mesocarp; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 4.5 mm long.
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