Tree up to 25 m by 60 cm. Bark light brown, smooth, becoming shallowly ridged, cracked and rugged. Young leaves bronze and drooping (sec. Corner); mature leaves elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, slightly asymmetric at the base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, rather dull below; 5.5-10.5 by 2-5 cm, shortly, bluntly acuminate, base cuneate, margin re volute when dry; midrib much stronger than the 6-8 pairs of pinnate nerves; leaf edge with a distinct intra-marginal vein; veinlets slightly elevated beneath, visible but sometimes obscure above; petiole c. 3 mm. Inflorescences solitary or serial, sometimes 2-3-branched at the very base, spike-like, ± zigzag, up to 7 cm long. Flowers bisexual, sessile, green, slightly obovoid, c. 4 mm long. Calyx lobes 4, deltoid, c. 1 mm long, acute. Petals oblong, fleshy. Stamens c. 1 mm long, filaments fleshy, subulate-oblong, in the epipetalous stamens for c. 1/3 adnate to the petals. Styles 4, subulate, c. 1 mm. Fruits broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, obtuse at each end, glabrous, smooth, 4.5-5 by 3.5-4 cm, with a woody pericarp up to 1.5 cm diam. Seeds globose, 1¼-1½ cm diam.
Home