Tree to 20 m high. Leaves often clustered; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate or obovate, 4.5–11 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, attenuate base, entire margin or rarely with 1 or 2 teeth near apex, acuminate or acute apex, subcoriaceous; secondary veins 5–8 pairs; petiole 4–10 mm long. Inflorescence mostly 1–3-flowered, 10–20 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long. Petals oblong-obovate, convex, recurved, 3.5–4.5 mm long, white or cream. Staminal filaments c. 1.7 mm long; anthers latrorse to slightly introrse. Ovary narrowly conical, half-immersed in disc, 3-locular with 8–10 ovules per locule; style c. 1 mm long; stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule obovoid or ± fusiform, 3-angular, 2.5–4.5 cm long; valves 2–3 mm thick. Seeds half-enclosed in aril.
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