Tree to 25 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs fluted, eventually glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 7–18 mm long; lamina lanceolate, 8.5–15 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, often foveolate, green below, eventually glabrescent. Flowers scarcely opening with tepals erect, yellow, perfumed. Tepals glabrous abaxially, papillose adaxially: outer 2.8–3.3 mm long, 2.3–2.8 mm wide; inner 2.3–2.6 mm long, 2–2.3 mm wide. Anthers 2–2.2 mm long, 1.5–1.7 mm wide, sessile, papillose; valves opening sideways or outwards; glands 3–6. Staminodes absent. Ovary with style 1.2–1.5 mm long, 1–1.1 mm wide, glabrous; style scarcely developed. Fruits globular, 44–53 mm long, 43–52 mm wide, orange, yellow. Cotyledons pink.
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