Tree to 40 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs angular and pubescent when very young, later terete and glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 4–7 mm long; lamina elliptic to ovate, 3.5–7 cm long, 2–3.6 cm wide, usually tripliveined, green or ± glaucous below, conspicuously foveolate, soon glabrescent. Inflorescence a panicle or raceme, mainly axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers cream, perfumed. Perianth tube 1.5–1.6 mm long, 1.6–1.8 mm wide, inner surface pubescent. Tepals 1.9–2.5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pubescent. Outer anthers 0.9–1.1 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm wide, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; filaments c. 0.5 mm long. Inner anthers c. 1 mm long, 0.6–0.7 mm wide, glabrous, or pubescent adaxially; filaments 0.8–0.9 mm long. Ovary 1–1.1 mm long, c. 0.6 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent; style glabrous. Fruit globular, 13–14 mm long, 15–16 mm wide, black. Cotyledons cream.
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