Tree up to 14 m with whitish and rather smooth bark. Young branchlets light brown, covered with silky hairs, glabrescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, dull and pubescent beneath especially on the midrib, nerves and veins, sometimes glabrescent, shining on the upper surface, elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong, 6.5-14 by 2.5-5.5 cm; base cuneate to obtuse or rounded; apex acuminate, the acumen up to 1.5 cm, mucronate, pointed at the tip; nerves 16-30 pairs, irregular, sometimes branched, elevated beneath, visible to obsolete above, slightly curved upward and towards the margin; veins distinct or visible beneath, obscure or not visible above; petiole 5-7 mm, thickened, curved, pubescent. Inflorescences sessile or up to 10 mm peduncled, pubescent, 5-14-flowered; bracts small. Flowers white (fide Kep. 71521) or light yellow (fide BUNNEMEIJER 7575), up to 2 cm pedicelled, pubescent. Floral tube cylindric 6-8 mm long, densely pubescent outside and towards the base inside, ribbed and sparsely villose within at the upper part. Calyx lobes ovate and obtuse, 2-3 mm long, densely pubescent outside and densely puberulous inside. Petaloid appendages inserted slightly behind the stamens, ovate or semi-orbicular, densely villous, almost as long as the stamens, sometimes even slightly longer. Stamens sessile, c. 1 mm long, oblong, connective dark-brown. Pistil clavate, 5 mm long; ovary densely puberulous; style absent; stigma capitate. Fruits protruding from the floral tube, oblanceolate, abruptly acute at the apex, attenuate to the base, including the stipe 3.5-5 by 1 cm, densely golden puberulous; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds ovoid, 10 by 6 mm, puberulous, glabrescent, shortly beaked at the apex, cuneate at the base, black and shining, with a long glabrous appendage c. 10 mm long.
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