Trees evergreen. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves irregularly whorled; petiole 1.2-2 cm; leaf blade oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8-15 × 3-6 cm, papery, glabrous, lateral veins 6-9 per side, veinlets reticulate, base cuneate or obtuse, margin minutely serrate, apex shortly acuminate or obtuse. Racemes in axils of current and fallen leaves, 4-6 cm, laxly flowered; peduncles sparsely pubescent. Pedicel 3-6 mm, slender, puberulent. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 5-6 mm, abaxially depressed pubescent, adaxially glabrous, apex acute. Petals 5, obovate, 6-7 mm, slightly pubescent at base, especially along margin, apex laciniate; lobes 12-15. Stamens ca. 30; anthers linear, puberulent, with a tuft of hairs at apices. Ovary ovoid, villous, 4-or 5-loculed. Drupe subglobose, ca. 2 × 1.5 cm; endocarp strongly tuberculate, very hard. Fl. unknown, fr. Sep.
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