Small or middle-sized tree, rarely up to 40 m. high, bole cylindric, 20–40 (rarely up to 60) cm. in diameter; bark greyish-brownish, slightly rugose; branches ± horizontal; branchlets prismatic-angular and glabrous at tips.. Leaf-blade coriaceous, ovate-oblong or oblong, entire, (5–)7–14(–18) cm. long, (3–)4–6(–8) cm. wide, subacuminate, broadly cuneate or sometimes almost rounded at the usually only slightly unequal-sided base, smooth and shining above; lateral veins 6–7(–9) pairs, arcuate, prominent beneath only; tertiary veins laxly prominent-reticulate beneath; petiole 1–1.3(–1.5) cm. long.. Inflorescences axillary, fascicled or glomerate, from a subglobose many-bracteolate cushion, glabrous; pedicels 3(–5) mm. long.. Flowers greenish.. Calyx-lobes ± 3 mm. long.. Fruit subglobular to broadly ellipsoidal, subtrigonous, yellow-orange, few-seeded, (1.5–)2–2.5(–3) × 1.5(–2) cm.
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