Tree to 30 m high. Stem buttressed. Twigs terete, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 8–24 mm long; lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 7.5–12.2 cm long, 2.7–4.8 cm wide, green or ± glaucous below, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence scarcely exceeding petiole. Flowers opening widely with outer tepals becoming almost horizontal, creamy green, not perfumed. Tepals usually sparsely pubescent; outer 2–2.5 mm long, 2.1–2.8 mm wide; inner 1.8–2.2 mm long, 1.5–1.8 mm wide. Stamens 6, ± uniform; anthers 0.7–1 mm long, 1.1–1.6 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.8–1.4 mm long; glands absent. Staminodes usually 3, undifferentiated, gland-like swellings present basally (sometimes additional staminodes present). Ovary sessile 1–1.3 mm long, 0.9–1.2 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit usually globular, sometimes ellipsoidal, laterally compressed, 37–54 mm long, 34–50 mm wide, black to blue-black. Cotyledons apricot, orange.
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