Tree up to 24 m by 45 cm. Bark finely fissured, pale brown. Leaves broad-elliptic, suborbicular to obovate or elliptic-oblong, acuminate to shortly abruptly acuminate (tip acute or rounded), 5.5-10 by 2.5-7 cm, shallowly crenulate, base cuneate to broad-cuneate; nerves 6-8 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, obscure or visible above; petiole 7 mm. Stipules linear, 1.5 cm long. Inflorescences cymose up to 3.5 cm long, (di-)trichotomously branched, ¾-2 cm peduncled, sometimes with only 2, or even a single flower, in the ultimate cymes the lateral flowers pedicelled and with 2 to 3 bracteoles united into a basal cup, central flower sessile and without bracteoles. Flowers white or pale green, 7-8 mm long. Calyx lobes 6, lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, shortly whitish hairy within. Petals, stamens, and style exserted. Petals sagittate, 3-5 mm long, unguiculate, fimbriate, conduplicate, base acute and inflexed. Filaments filiform, 3.5-5 mm; anthers ovoid, slightly apiculate. Disk cup-shaped, fleshy, halfway divided into deltoid lobes. Ovary cylindric or cuneate, 2½-4 mm long, 1-celled, with 12 ovules; ovules pendulous, borne at the top of the central axis; style filiform 4-6 mm, stigmas capitate. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid 1.75 by 1 cm, crowned by the persistent floral parts, base abruptly narrowed, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid or obovoid, 9 by 6 mm, black, slightly areolate.
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