Tree up to 14 m. Leaves broadly ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 10-21 by 4-9 cm, glabrous, chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, shining above, rather dull beneath, caudate-acuminate or rarely acute, base rounded, rarely acute, margin entire; longitudinal nerves 5 (middle 3 conspicuous and elevated beneath, plane or depressed above, lateral 2 faint), besides the intramarginal veins; transverse veinlets reticulate, petiole 6 mm. Inflorescences spike-like, serial, usually branched at the base, up to 19 cm long. Flowers unisexual, usually in groups on very short lateral stalks, brownish pubescent outside. Male flowers 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm pedicelled. Calyx lobes 4, deltoid, acute, 2 mm long. Petals deltoid, acute, c. 1/6 mm long, entire, sometimes sparsely ciliate on the margins. Stamens ½-1 mm. Pistil rudiments 4, subulate, 1/3 mm long, sparsely hairy at the base. Disk 4-lobed, each lobe crenulate. ♀ Flowers sessile. Calyx tube cylindric and more or less quadrangular, c. 1.5 mm long. Calyx lobes and petals similar as in the males. Staminodes ¼-1/6 mm. Styles 4, exserted, spread and recurved, 2/3 mm, sparsely brownish pubescent at the base. Fruits ellipsoid or ovoid, usually tapering at each end, glabrous, with red stripes when fresh, 5-7½ by 2½ cm; pericarp woody. Seeds ellipsoid, 3 by 1 cm.
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