Small trees, to 10 m tall. Leaves: petioles 2-9 cm long, slightly swollen at base, slightly winged near apex; lamina elliptic, 14-29 by 7-11 cm, base cuneate, margin entire, slightly undulate, apex acute to acuminate, acumen 5-15 mm long, both surfaces glabrous, yellowish green when dry; midrib prominulous above, prominent beneath, primary veins 6-9 pairs, brochidodromous, merging through network of intercostal veins, prominulous on both surfaces, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Inflorescences an axillary spike, pendulous; rachis to 26 cm long, 2.5-3 mm diam., c. 4 mm diam. at base, minutely puberulous, longitudinally fissured. Calyx open in bud. Flowers sessile; hypanthium conoid, trigonous, c. 10 mm tall, glabrous, slightly tetragonous; sepals 3, ovate, 5-6 by 2-3 mm, margins fimbriate; petals 3-4, ovate, c. 2.5 by 1.8 cm, pink, margins fimbriate; staminal whorls 7-8, filaments to 4 cm long; disc raised 0.6 mm; ovary 3-locular; style to 3 cm long, pink. Fruits obovoid, c. 9 by 6 cm, reddish. Seeds 5, 4-6 by 2-4 cm.
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