Tree up to 35 m, 80 cm ø. Buttresses plank-like, up to 2 m tall, 2½ m out and 6 cm ø. Bark smooth to finely fissured, pustulate-lenticellate, light-brown to grey-brown. Innovations densely yellowish-brown hairy, glabrescent. Young twigs blackish when dry, older ones greyish, glabrous and sparsely lenticellate. Terminal buds ovoid-conical, acute, 10-15 by 4-5 mm. Stipules peltately attached, overlapping, thick, ovate-acute, c. 10 by 5 mm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, broadly ovate to elliptic-orbicular, (8-)15-18(-25) by (6-)8-12(-18) cm, index 1½-2½; base rounded to subcordate, symmetrical to ± asymmetrical; margin entire, undulate, often recurved; apex bluntly rounded or acute to acuminate; midrib and nerves strongly raised beneath, impressed above; nerves 1-2 pairs, ascending and arcuating, the lowest pair running through ¾ of the length of the leaf; reticulations coarse, wide-spaced, subscalari-form, distinct beneath; petiole 10-20 by 2-3 mm, glabrous, shallowly sulcate. Flowers 5-merous. Inflorescence ♂ or ♂ ⚥, axillary or borne on the lower part of the new shoot, 10-30-flowered, including the bracts densely yellowish-brown appressed-hairy; bracts ovate, c. 2 by 1 mm. ♂Inflorescence (not fully developed) up to 2 cm long, 15-30-flowered, paniculate; ♂ flowers c. 1½-2 mm ø; perianth lobes c. 1½-2 by 1 mm; filaments c. 1mm, anthers c. ½-l by ½ mm; pistillode compressed ovoid, c. 1 by ½ mm. ♂ ⚥Inflorescence racemose, 5-10-flowered, slender, up to 7 cm long, few-branched; ⚥ flower ovoid-ellipsoid, borne on the distal part of the inflorescence, c. 2-3 by 2 mm; perianth lobes ovate-lanceolate, c. 2-2½ by 1 mm, at anthesis recurved; filaments up to 1 ½ mm, anthers c. ½-¾ by ½ mm; ovary ovoid-cylindrical, c. 2-3 by l-1½ mm, initially densely appressed-hairy, glabrescent except for the basal part; stigmatic arms spreading, shallowly bilobed at the tip. Infructescence up to 5 cm long, carrying 1-5 fruits, axes sturdy c. 2-3 mm thick. Fruit ovoid, faintly 4-5-angular, glabrous, 1½-2½ by 1-1¾ cm, exocarp occasionally lenticellate, up to 2 mm Ø, turning to orange or deep-red when mature. Embryo curved, cotyledons fleshy, unequal in thickness, hypocotyle ascending; endosperm absent.
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