Tree to 8 m high. Internodes of young branchlets terete or ± compressed. Leaves simple, glabrous; petiole (0.5–) 1–2.5 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate, (3.5–) 5–14 cm long, (2–) 3–6.5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences usually several-flowered, axillary or axillary and infrafoliar, 2–6 (–8) cm long; pedicels 1.5–3.5 mm long (3–5 mm long in fruit), glabrous or nearly so. Flower buds obtuse. Sepals (1.5–) 2.5–3 mm wide, glabrous adaxially. Petals 8–9 mm long, like staminal filaments deciduous in fruit. Gynoecium syncarpous, like fruit 4-loculed; ovary pubescent at apex or glabrous, like fruit with septicidal fissures in distal quarter–half. Fruit syncarpous, broadly ovate to subglobose in outline, 8–14 mm long, without stylar beak, 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 1–2 mm thick, with fleshy exocarp and woody mesocarp; endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds c. 5.5 mm long.
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