Small trees, 8-18 m tall, without adventitious roots; bark brown to grey, thickly fissured, inner bark pink. Leaves grouped towards end of branches, arranged in storeys, subsessile, petioles 0-5 mm, slightly winged, not swollen at base; lamina narrowly oblong, 15-37 by 4-9 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate, confluent onto petiole margin serrate-crenulate, slightly revolute, apex acuminate, acumen 8-15 mm long, both surfaces glabrous; midrib prominulous above, prominent beneath, primary veins 14-24 pairs, brochidodromous, prominulous above, prominent beneath, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Cataphylls lanceolate, to 3 cm long, membranaceous. Inflorescences terminal or ramiflorous, pendulous; rachis 1-1.5 mm diam., longitudinally striate, glabrous. Calyx open in bud. Flowers with pedicels 9-17 mm long; hypanthium conoid, 2-3 mm, glabrous; sepals ovate, c. 2.5 by 2 mm, glabrous; petals cream; stamens in 4 whorls, the inner one staminodal, pink. Fruits ovoid, 7.5-8 by 3-4 cm, terete, not winged, exocarp smooth, glabrous, green tinted pink when mature, with 4 knob-like protrusions at base.
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