Tree to 20 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole 1–2 cm long; lamina elliptic or narrowly so, 5.5–9 cm long, 2–4.5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences few–several-flowered, axillary, 2–9 cm long; pedicels 4–5.5 mm long (length similar in fruit), glabrous. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals 1.5–2 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 6.5–7.5 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary sparsely pubescent at apex or glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures at least in distal half. Fruit syncarpous, broadly ovate to elliptic in outline, c. 12 mm long, without stylar beak, sparsely pubescent at apex or 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, exocarp fleshy but mesocarp apparently lacking; endocarp thinly cartilaginous. Seeds c. 5 mm long.
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