Dioecious tree to 40 m; trunk fluted; bark fissured, corky, cream. Branchlets appressed-puberulent with pale brown hairs, glabrescent. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or rarely lanceolate, acuminate; lamina mostly 7-13 cm long and 3.5-6.5 cm wide, glabrous; base attenuate; secondary veins 5-7 pairs; pocket domatia present; petiole 5-15 mm long. Inflorescence 6-16 cm long; rachis appressed-puberulent. Calyx sparsely puberulent, 1.4-2 mm long; lobes shallowly triangular, c. 0.4 mm long. Petals ovate-lanceolate, 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous. Male flowers: filaments 4-4.5 mm long; rudimentary ovary strigose; style and stigma absent. Female flowers: filaments 3-3.5 mm long, the anthers indehiscent; ovary strigose; style 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous. Drupe globose, 18-24 mm long, c. 20 mm diam.; exocarp thin, black; mesocarp 1.5 mm thick.
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