Tree to 20 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs terete or ± fluted, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 10–22 mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 13–20.5 cm long, 4.5–8.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence axillary and pseudoterminal, scarcely exceeding petioles. Flowers not opening widely, with tepals remaining erect with incurved tips, creamy yellow, perfumed. Tepals usually pubescent abaxially, pubescent adaxially: outer 1–1.9 mm long, 1.7–2.2 mm wide; inner 1.6–1.7 mm long, 1.4–1.8 mm wide. Anthers 0.6–1.1 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, sessile, hairy (papillose at apex); valves opening sideways; glands 6. Staminodes absent. Ovary square-sided, 0.8–1 mm long, 0.6–0.7 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit usually laterally compressed globular or pyriform, 48–54 mm long, 39–60 mm wide (longer axis), 25–38 mm wide (shorter axis), blue-black. Cotyledons creamy pink.
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