Trees to 15 m tall, rarely monoecious, glabrous except for pubescent sepals, ovary, and fruits; branchlets densely lenticellate. Petiole 3-10 mm, usually transversely rugose when dry; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 8-15 × 3-6 cm, leathery or thickly papery, base cuneate to rounded, usually oblique, margin entire, apex caudate-acuminate; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, reticulate veins dense and prominent. Inflorescences on slender, leafy, axillary shoots. Male flowers: pedicels 2-10 mm; sepals 4, ca. 2 mm; disk rounded-discoid, entire or margin slightly elevated and shallowly divided; stamens 4-8, inserted at sinus of disk; filaments terete. Female flowers: ovary globose, 2-or 3-celled; styles 2 or 3, elongate; stigma peltate or flabellate, entire. Fruiting pedicels 2.5-4 cm; drupes solitary, globose, 12-22 mm in diam., 2-or 3-celled, 1-seeded; exocarp subleathery-dry; endocarp papery. Fl. and fr. Nov-Feb.
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