Tree or sometimes shrub, to 2 tall; young branches shortly golden-strigose, slightly striate. Petiole 1-2.5 cm long, stout, striate, canaliculate, short-strigose, soon glabrescent; blades coriaceous, oblong to lanceolate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 12-30 x 4-13 cm, shining and olive-brown to golden-brown above when dried, silvery-or golden-sericeous or sparsely puberulous and soon glabrescent beneath, margins revolute, apex acute or acuminate, acumen 2-4 cm long, base acute, rarely obtuse or rounded; primary vein sulcate above, strongly prominent and striate beneath, secondary veins 7-10 on each side, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, veinlets prominulous on both sides. Inflorescence to 6 cm long, densely golden strigose, becoming glabrous and stout in fruit; pedicels about 1 mm long; bracts and bracteoles ovate, densely pubescent, 0.5-2 mm long. Calyx glabrescent, 0.5 mm long; petals oblong-elliptic, 2-3 mm long, cream, glabrous except the inside of the inflexed apex; functional stamens to 4 mm long, the anthers 0.7 mm long, in pistillate flowers much smaller; disk eccentric, to 1 mm high, surrounding one half of ovary; functional pistil in female flowers slightly 5-angular or nearly cylindric, about 3 mm long, stigma capitate, rugose, in male flowers ovary abortive, rarely to 1 mm long, completely surrounded by fleshy disk. Drupe to 2 cm long, 1 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick, arcuate, convex side black with 5 sharp ridges, concave side with a white fleshy appendage.
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Trees or shrubs to 13 m tall; trunk to 10 cm diam.; branches lightly golden strigose. Leaves with petioles 10-25 cm long, stout, canaliculate, strigose to glabrate; blades oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 15-30 cm long, 7-13 cm wide, coriaceous, olive brown, silvery-or golden-sericeous or pilose when young, becoming glabrate, the apex acute or acuminate with an acumen to 4 cm long and ultimately rounded, the base acute, rarely rounded, the primary veins 7-10 pairs, arcuate or ascending, the ultimate veins conspicuously reticulated and sharply prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences paniculate, strongly branched from the base, rarely strict, densely golden-strigose, becoming glabrate and stout in fruit, the bracts lance-ovate or ovate, densely pubescent. Flowers with calyx campanulate, glabrous except for the apices of the teeth; petals cream yellow, obovate to elliptic, 2-3 mm long, glabrous except for minute pubescence on the inside of the inflexed acumen; functional stamens 3.5-4 mm long, the anthers broadly ovate, to 0.7 mm long, the stamens of pistillate flowers much smaller; functional pistil cylindrical or slightly angular and arcuate, 3 mm high, the basal lateral fleshy pulvinus to 1 mm high and surrounding about half of the ovary. Fruits drupaceous, 1-2 cm long, 0.8-1.0 cm wide, 0.9 cm thick, the putamen strongly 5-ribbed on the convex side.
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