Tree to 15 m high. Stem not buttressed. Twigs fluted and pubescent when young, ± terete and glabrescent when older. Leaves: petiole c. 9 mm long; lamina lanceolate, c. 10.5 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers opening widely with tepals ± horizontal at anthesis, creamy green, not perfumed. Tepals glabrous: outer 3.2–4.2 mm long, 2.4–3.2 mm wide; inner 2.8–3.9 mm long, 2–2.9 mm wide. Anthers 0.6–0.7 mm long, 0.7–0.8 mm wide, almost sessile, glabrous; filaments 0.1–0.4 mm long, glabrous or with few hairs; valves opening sideways; glands fused, forming 3-partite disc. Staminodes undifferentiated, fused to glands. Ovary 1.3–1.9 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit oblong, 50–70 mm long, purplish black to red. Cotyledons cream, pink towards centre.
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