Tree, 5-15(-30) m, up to 25 cm Ø, sometimes fluted. Branches horizontally spreading. Branchlets and petioles (1-2 cm) shortly appressedly yellowish-pubescent, glabrate. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic, apex shortly rather abruptly acuminate, tip obtuse, base broadly cuneate to rounded, slightly inequilateral and decurrent on the petiole, thin-coriaceous to almost charta-ceous, glabrous above, finely appressedly yel-lowish-hairy beneath, ultimately glabrate, lower surface often minutely tuberculate in dry, apparently yellowish-green in fresh specimens, with numerous fine pellucid points against strong light, 15-20(-28) by 5-10 cm, midrib grooved above, much raised beneath, nerves 8-10 rather straight to curved-ascending pairs, obscurely inarching before the edge, generally prominent beneath; petiole (1.5-)2-2.5 cm by 2-2.5 mm. Inflorescence with a rather thick peduncle 1-2.5 cm, 2-3-chotomous, the branches short, thickish, each with several cymosely and compactly arranged sessile flowers, all over covered with yellowish-greyish and ± appressed hairs. Calyx c. 1.5 mm, lobes very short. Petals oblong, a little fleshy, white, hairy outside and at the thickened inflexed apex inside, otherwise glabrous, 4-5 mm in the ♂, c. 3 mm in the ♀ flowers. ♂ Flowers: Filaments c. 5 mm; anthers c. 1 mm. Rudiment of ovary elongate-conical, c. 2 mm. ♀ Flowers: Staminodes a little shorter than the ovary; filaments weak; anther cells much reduced in size, empty. Ovary subcylindrical, glabrous. Drupe oblong, though narrowed gradually upwards, (1.8-)2-2.5 by 0.6-0.8 cm, greenish-whitish, with 3-5 prominent longitudinal and several oblique short ribs on the dorsal convex, and a creamy-white fleshy oblong appendage on the much deepened ventral surface.
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