Tree to 20 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs 4-angled and pubescent when young, eventually terete and ± glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 6–15 mm long; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 5–13 cm long, 2–5.2 cm wide, triveined, green below, eventually ± glabrescent. Inflorescence c. same length as flowers. Flowers opening quite widely with tepals becoming ± horizontal, cream, perfumed. Tepals 4.5–5.3 mm long, 2.3–2.8 mm wide, sericeous. Outer anthers c. 1.5 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, mainly glabrous; filaments 1.5–2.1 mm long. Inner anthers 1.3–1.4 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, glabrous only towards apex; filaments 1.5–2.7 mm long. Ovary 1.3–1.9 mm long, c. 1.1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous; stigma funnel-shaped. Fruit carpel ellipsoidal, 18–20 mm long, 10–13 mm wide, black, glaucous; cup apex lobed. Cotyledons cream.
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