Tree 20–40 m high; trunk 40–80 cm diam. Wood pinkish internally, with broad rays. Leaves with petiole c. 1–3 cm long, semiterete at base, somewhat thickened and flattened distally; lamina elliptic to ovate or narrowly elliptic to ovate (juvenile leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic, adult leaves obovate to oblanceolate or occasionally spathulate or elliptic, fide Weston & Kooyman 2002), (4.5–) 6–10 (–16) cm long, c. 1.5–6 cm wide, glabrous; margin entire (juvenile leaves entire or innocuous-dentate to spinose-dentate, fide Weston & Kooyman 2002), recurved; venation loosely brochidodromous to eucamptodromous. Inflorescence 6–10-flowered, 1.5–2 cm long. Tepals 6–7 mm long, ivory, with long trichomes on inside attached at base, otherwise glabrous. Stamens longer than tepals, 7.5–9 mm long, ivory; anthers pendulous, ivory. Gynoecium 4–5 mm long, ivory. Fruit globose to ovoid, 3.5–6 cm long, 3–6.5 cm diam., green to yellowish or brown. A more detailed description is provided by Weston & Kooyman (2002: 825).
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