Shrub or small tree commonly up to 9 m., rarely up to 12 m.. Bark smooth to rough, dark grey.. Twigs green at first, becoming greyish.. Young shoots and petioles thinly pubescent at first, soon glabrescent.. Buds minutely perulate.. Petioles 4–8 mm. long, channelled above; leaf-blade elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, (7–)12–20(–27) cm. long, (2–)3–7(–10) cm. wide, obtusely shortly acuminate, asymmetrically cuneate-rounded, sharply to shallowly serrate or subentire, coriaceous, shiny above, lateral nerves 7–10 pairs, looped well within the margin, and often with a second series of loops towards the margin, tertiary nerves reticulate, all nerves more prominent beneath than above, quite glabrous above and beneath, deep green above, pale green beneath.. Stipules linear to linear-lanceolate, 1–1.5(–2) mm. long, sparingly to evenly pubescent, soon deciduous.. Flowers fasciculate on bosses on the older branches or the trunk, evil-smelling.. Male flowers: pedicels (2–)4–8 mm. long, glabrous; sepals orbicular, 4–4.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, glabrous, minutely ciliolate, white, cream-coloured or pink-tinged; stamens (18–)20–25(–30), in 2 peripheral whorls, 5–6 mm. long, anthers 1.5–2 mm. long; disc with a somewhat crisped-convolute margin, the lobes partially enveloping the filaments, ± radially sulcate, but with no central projection, glabrous.. Female flowers: pedicels and sepals as in the ♂; disc fleshy, crenulate, glabrous; ovary 2–3-locular, subglobose, 2.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, tomentose or glabrous; styles 2–3, persistent; stigmas subsessile, spreading, obcordate-spathulate, smooth, fleshy, yellow-cream.. Fruit subglobose, up to 2.7 cm. long and 3.3 cm. diameter, shallowly verrucose-rugulose or ± smooth, pubescent or glabrous, yellow, orange or brown when ripe.. Seeds ovoid, 1.9 cm. long, orange.
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Arbor; ramuli novelli tenues, fusci, adpresse fulvo-pubescentes, demum glabrati. Petiolus 5-8 mm longus, pubescens; limbus 4-12 cm longus, 1 1/2-5 cm latus, ovato-oblongus vel oblongus, acutus vel subobtusus, basi obtusus et paulo obliquus, interdum leviter cordatus, argute spinuloso-dentatus, coriaceus vel subcoriaceus, nitidulus, laxe reticulatus; costae secundariae ± 8; stipulae 1 1/2-3 mm longae, lineares, caducae. Flores lignicoli, fasciculati, [male] pedicellis ad 12 mm longis suffulti; pedicelli [female] 3 mm longi, pubescentes. Flores circ. 12 mm lati. Sepala 5, ovata vel suborbicularia, extus puberula, intus glabra, ciliata, fusco-viridia; stamina 20-27; discus planus, margine laciniatus, medio foveatus, glaber; discus [female] breviter urceolaris, crenulatus, tenuis, breviter puberulus; ovarium tomentosum, 3-loculare; stigmata sessilia, obcordata. Fructus non visi.
A shrub or small tree. The crown is dense and rounded. It grows 9-15 m tall. The trunk is 30 cm across. Flowers occur in the trunk and large branches. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. The fruit is a flattened round shape and 27 mm long by 33 mm across. They are yellow-brown to orange.
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