Trees, 6-18 m high, 25 cm in diam., crown flattish, outer bark smooth, brown to brownish grey, inner bark dull brown, cream outwards, sapwood brownish white, slash wood hard, cream-yellow. Leaves fasciculate; blades lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, apex acuminate to cuspidate, base cuneate, margins slightly revolute, 8-16 by 3-5 cm, firmly chartaceous, darkish green above, greyish brown, glaucous beneath, lateral veins 7-12 pairs; petioles narrowly triangular in section, sulcate above, 1-4.5 cm long, reddish. Staminate inflorescences slender, flat, 3-6 cm long; bract caducous; calyx campanulate, 4 or 5 lobes varying as to serration, size and shape; stamens 8-10, filaments oblong, 0.2-0.6 mm long, anthers usually obliquely-lunate, oblong or small broadly elliptic, 0.6-1.5 mm long, strongly apiculate; pedicels 1.5 mm long. Pistillate inflorescences angulate, 4-5 cm long; female flowers green; calyx usually caducous; styles recurved or circinnate, as long as the ovary; pedicels terete, 6-10 mm long. Fruiting axes angulate, 3.5-6 cm long; bracts caducous. Drupes ellipsoid to ovoid, 6-14 mm long, 5-7 mm in diam., apex acute to round, base acute to ovate, tuberculate, green, ripening purple-green with black stigma; styles usually caducous or circinnate; fruit stalks 5-16 mm long. Fig. 2d, e.
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