Tree 10-15 m; young branches striate, glabrous. Leaves narrow-oblong, gradually acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate at the base, ± inequilateral, coriaceous, brownish when dry, glabrous, shining on both faces, 15-25 by 5-7.5 cm, entire or nearly so; midrib slightly prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves 5-7 pairs, curved below, then ascending-suberect, little raised or slightly impressed above, sharply prominent beneath, veins distantly transverse, finely raised on both faces as are the rather dense reticulations; petiole stout, 8-12 mm. Glomerules very condensed, many-flowered. Pedicels 6 mm, glabrous. Bracts small, c. 0.7 mm, pubescent. Calyx green, c. 2.5 mm, deeply 5-lobed, glabrous outside, densely greyish-puberulous inside. Stamens 8, equal; filaments thick-filiform, glabrous, 1 mm. Staminodes thick, somewhat flattened, 0.5 mm, nearly glabrous except the minutely pilose apex. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, bright yellow, 5-6 by 2.5-3 cm.
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